Arab town in northern Israel
Local council in Israel
Ein Mahil (Arabic :عين ماهل ;Hebrew :עֵין מָהִל ) is anArab local council in theNorthern District ofIsrael , located about five kilometers north-east ofNazareth . It was declared a local council in 1964. In 2023 it had a population of 13,834;[ 1] Muslims .[ 3]
History
Ottoman Empire In 1596, Ein Mahil appeared inOttoman tax registers as being in theNahiya Tabariyya , part ofSafad Sanjak . It had a population of 28Muslim households. They paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, fruit trees, and goats or beehives; a total of 1,355akçe .[ 4] Pierre Jacotin , from 1799 showed the place namedAin el Mahel .[ 5]
In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village in the Nazareth district.[ 6] [ 7]
The French explorerVictor Guérin passed by the village in the 1875, and described it as having 10 poor dwellings, surrounded by gardens of olives, figs and pomegranates.[ 8] PEF 'sSurvey of Western Palestine (SWP)[ 9]
A population list from about 1887 showed that’Ain Mahil had about 195 Muslim inhabitants.[ 10]
British Mandate In the1922 census of Palestine conducted by theBritish Mandate authorities , 'Ain Mahel had a population of 516, all Muslims.[ 11] 1931 census of Palestine to 628, of whom 1 was Christian and the rest Muslims, in a total of 109 occupied houses.[ 12]
In the1945 statistics the population was 1,040Muslims ,[ 13] dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[ 14] [ 15] [ 16]
See also
References ^a b "Regional Statistics" .Israel Central Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved11 August 2025 .^ Palmer, 1881, p.122 ^ "מעלות-תרשיחא" (PDF) .Central Bureau of Statistics . Retrieved15 July 2025 .^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189 ^ Karmon, 1960, p.167 Archived 2019-12-22 at theWayback Machine ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p.132 ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p.209 ^ Guérin, 1880, p.382 ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.362 ^ Schumacher, 1888, p.184 ^ Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p.38 ^ Mills, 1932, p.73 ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p.8 ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.62 ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.109 ^ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics.Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.159
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