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Kafr Yasif
Kafr Yasif (Arabic: كفر ياسيف, Kufr Yasīf; Hebrew: כַּפְר יָסִיף) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. It is located 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) northeast of the city of Acre and adjacent to Abu Snan and Yarka. The population of Kafr Yasif is Christian, Muslim and Druze. In 2022, 52.4% of the population was Christian, 44.9% Muslim and 2.7% Druze.
Many ancient remains have been excavated at Kafr Yasif, including mosaic floors, Corinthian columns, and cisterns cut in rock. Remains dating to the Persian, Hellenistic (4th-3rd centuries BCE) and Roman periods have been found here.
According to a tradition from Kafr Yasif, cited by F.M. Abel, the village was named Kefar Akko, lit. 'Akko village', until Josephus fortified it and named it after himself.
Remains dating to the Byzantine and Early Islamic (Umayyad/Abbasid) periods have been found here. Furnaces used in the manufacture of glass; starting in the Byzantine (or possibly Roman) period and continuing into the Umayyad/Abbasid (fifth–seventh centuries CE) era have been found here.
Remains dating to the Crusader and Mamluk periods have been found in Kafr Yasif.
During the Crusader period, it was known as Cafresi, Cafriasif, or Cafriasim. In 1193, Queen Isabella I and her spouse Henry II of Champagne granted the casale of Kafr Yasif to prior Heinrich of the Teutonic Knights. In the 13th century it was inhabited by Christians and paid tithes to the Bishop of Acre. In 1257 Kafr Yasif appears in a document relating to a disagreement between the Bishop of Acre and the Teutonic Knights about its income. At one point it was a casale of the Knights Hospitallers. It was part of the domain of the Crusaders during the hudna (truce) between the Crusaders based in Acre and the Mamluk sultan Qalawun in 1283.
In the Ottoman era, the main crops were olives and cotton. Ottoman tax records from 1596 showed that Kafr Yasif, part of the Safed Sanjak, had a population of 58 Muslim households, seven Muslim bachelors and 19 Jewish households. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, fruit trees, cotton, goats and beehives, winter pastures, jizya (poll tax), in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 12,877 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf. In 1618 the Druze governor of Safed Fakhr al-Din Ma'n destroyed the home of the Shia Muslim notable Ahmad Quraytim in Kafr Yasif because Quraytim had joined forces with Fakhr al-Din's rival, the governor of Lajjun Sanjak, Ahmad Turabay.
In the 1740s, ten Jewish households under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Soloman Abadi settled in Kafr Yasif and were joined by Jews, who left Safad in the early 1760s as a result of the 1759 earthquakes. According to Jewish travelers, the Jews in Kafr Yasif lived well under Daher al-Umar, the Arab strongman of the Galilee (1730–1775), who allowed Jews to settle there. According to a map by Pierre Jacotin from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 the place was known as Koufour Youcef.
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Kafr Yasif
Kafr Yasif (Arabic: كفر ياسيف, Kufr Yasīf; Hebrew: כַּפְר יָסִיף) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. It is located 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) northeast of the city of Acre and adjacent to Abu Snan and Yarka. The population of Kafr Yasif is Christian, Muslim and Druze. In 2022, 52.4% of the population was Christian, 44.9% Muslim and 2.7% Druze.
Many ancient remains have been excavated at Kafr Yasif, including mosaic floors, Corinthian columns, and cisterns cut in rock. Remains dating to the Persian, Hellenistic (4th-3rd centuries BCE) and Roman periods have been found here.
According to a tradition from Kafr Yasif, cited by F.M. Abel, the village was named Kefar Akko, lit. 'Akko village', until Josephus fortified it and named it after himself.
Remains dating to the Byzantine and Early Islamic (Umayyad/Abbasid) periods have been found here. Furnaces used in the manufacture of glass; starting in the Byzantine (or possibly Roman) period and continuing into the Umayyad/Abbasid (fifth–seventh centuries CE) era have been found here.
Remains dating to the Crusader and Mamluk periods have been found in Kafr Yasif.
During the Crusader period, it was known as Cafresi, Cafriasif, or Cafriasim. In 1193, Queen Isabella I and her spouse Henry II of Champagne granted the casale of Kafr Yasif to prior Heinrich of the Teutonic Knights. In the 13th century it was inhabited by Christians and paid tithes to the Bishop of Acre. In 1257 Kafr Yasif appears in a document relating to a disagreement between the Bishop of Acre and the Teutonic Knights about its income. At one point it was a casale of the Knights Hospitallers. It was part of the domain of the Crusaders during the hudna (truce) between the Crusaders based in Acre and the Mamluk sultan Qalawun in 1283.
In the Ottoman era, the main crops were olives and cotton. Ottoman tax records from 1596 showed that Kafr Yasif, part of the Safed Sanjak, had a population of 58 Muslim households, seven Muslim bachelors and 19 Jewish households. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, fruit trees, cotton, goats and beehives, winter pastures, jizya (poll tax), in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 12,877 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf. In 1618 the Druze governor of Safed Fakhr al-Din Ma'n destroyed the home of the Shia Muslim notable Ahmad Quraytim in Kafr Yasif because Quraytim had joined forces with Fakhr al-Din's rival, the governor of Lajjun Sanjak, Ahmad Turabay.
In the 1740s, ten Jewish households under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Soloman Abadi settled in Kafr Yasif and were joined by Jews, who left Safad in the early 1760s as a result of the 1759 earthquakes. According to Jewish travelers, the Jews in Kafr Yasif lived well under Daher al-Umar, the Arab strongman of the Galilee (1730–1775), who allowed Jews to settle there. According to a map by Pierre Jacotin from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 the place was known as Koufour Youcef.
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