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  Muqeible  Muqeible | |
| Coordinates:32°30′51″N35°17′41″E / 32.51417°N 35.29472°E /32.51417; 35.29472 | |
| Grid position | 177/213PAL |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Northern |
| Council | Gilboa |
| Population (2023)[1] | 4,537 |
Muqeible orMuqeibla (Arabic:مقيبلة,Hebrew:מֻקֵיבִּלָה), meaning "The front place",[2] is anArab town inIsrael'sNorthern District, situated in theJezreel Valley betweenJenin in theWest Bank and theTa'anakh area. It is a part of theGilboa Regional Council. In 2023, its population was 4,537. The inhabitants areMuslims andChristians.
During theRoman-era, a town called "Muqeibleh" stood at the site.Byzantine-era settlement is attested to archaeologically by awell and pottery workshops from that period near the present village.[3][4]
According to a local inhabitant, the villagers moved here from theal-Haram-Sidna Ali-area in the latter part of theOttoman period.[3] In 1838Edward Robinson noted Mukeibileh as a “village in the plain, on the direct route fromJenin toNazareth.”[5] He placed Mukeibileh as being in the District of Jenin, also called "Haritheh esh-Shemaliyeh".[6]
Victor Guérin, who visited in 1870, noted that the village contained 400 inhabitants and had a number ofcisterns.[7] In 1870/1871 (1288AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in thenahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Qibly.[8]
In 1882, thePEF'sSurvey of Western Palestine described Muqeible as "amud village in the plain, supplied bycisterns."[9]
In the1922 census of Palestine conducted by theBritish Mandate authorities,Muquibleh had a population of 201; 181 Muslims and 20 Christians,[10] where all the Christians were Orthodox.[11] In the1931 census, the population had increased to 270; 244 Muslims and 26 Christians, in a total of 67 houses.[12]
By the1945 statistics Muqeible had 460 inhabitants, all classified as Muslims.[13] They owned a total of 2,687 dunams of land, while 4,441 dunams were public, a total of 7,128.[14] Of this, 174 dunams were used for plantations or irrigable land, 6,421 for cereals,[15] while 22 dunams were built-up land.[16]
After the1948 Arab–Israeli War, Muqeible became part of Israel.
In 1994, Andrew Petersen, an archaeologist specializing inIslamic architecture, examined the "Hawsh"; a large, squarecourtyard building, resembling akhan, in the center of the village. The central courtyard of the "Hawsh" measures approximately 30m per side. On the east side there is a small gateway, leading into a talliwan. Petersen noted that the masonry suggested that it was built either in late Ottoman or earlyMandate Period.[3]
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