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1 History  



1.1  Antiquity  





1.2  Ottoman era  





1.3  British Mandate era  





1.4  State of Israel  







2 Biriya Forest  





3 See also  





4 References  














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Coordinates: 32°5848N 35°2956E / 32.98000°N 35.49889°E / 32.98000; 35.49889
 

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Birya
בִּירִיָּה
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • standardBiriya
Birya is located in Northeast Israel
Birya

Birya

Birya is located in Israel
Birya

Birya

Coordinates: 32°58′48N 35°29′56E / 32.98000°N 35.49889°E / 32.98000; 35.49889
Country Israel
DistrictNorthern
CouncilMerom HaGalil
Founded1946 (original)
1971 (current)
Founded byReligious Kibbutz Movement
Population
 (2022)
872[1]

Birya (Hebrew: בִּירִיָּה, also Biriya) is an agricultural village in northern Israel. Located in the Upper Galilee near Safed, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Merom HaGalil Regional Council. As of 2022 its population was 872.[1]

Biriya existed in the Classic Era, as Jews lived in Birya and environs in Talmudic times. In early Ottoman era, the village had a mixed Muslim and Jewish population. Jewish community abandoned the location in late 16th century. By late 19th century, the village of Biriyya housed an Arab Muslim community. The Jewish village was founded in 1946 on a site adjacent to the Arab town of Biriyya. Both Arab and Jewish locations were depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Under Israeli governance, a Jewish agricultural village was re-established at the site.

History[edit]

Antiquity[edit]

The town of Birya is mentioned in the Talmud.[2] According to the Jewish National Fund,[3] Jews lived in Birya and environs in Talmudic times.

Ottoman era[edit]

In early Ottoman era, the village had a mixed Muslim and Jewish population. The author of the Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Joseph Caro is said to have completed one of his works at Birya. Jewish community abandoned the location in late 16th century. By late 19th century, the village of Biriyya housed an Arab Muslim community. In 1908, Baron Rothschild purchased land in Birya for the farmers of Rosh Pina.

British Mandate era[edit]

A group of Palestinian Jewish pioneers settled there in 1922 but when their efforts failed, the land was transferred to the Jewish National Fund and afforestation work began.[4]

Streets of modern Birya, a northern suburb of Safed (2018, white text and light grey streets) overlaid on a Survey of Palestine map from 1942 (black text, red urban areas and black streets), showing the relative location of the Palestinian village of Biriyya, as well as Ein al-Zeitun and Ein Zeitim.

In 1945, a group of pioneers affiliated with the Religious Kibbutz Movement settled at a site near Birya Fortress.[5]

In February 1946, after an attack on an Arab Legion camp in the area, the British army searched the village and found arms on the land. All the kvutza members were arrested and the village was occupied by the British military. In response thousands of young Jews from all parts of the country re-established the settlement not far from the original site.[3]

The British withdrew their troops two months later, although the villagers were not released until the following summer.[3] In 1947, Birya had a population of 150 Jews.[3]

Birya forest

State of Israel[edit]

Modern Birya was founded in 1971.[citation needed] Birya was one of the settlements hit by Katyusha rockets launched by Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Efforts were made to resuscitate the forest on its outskirts, which suffered severe damage in the war.[6]

Biriya Forest[edit]

The forests were planted by the Jewish National Fund in the 1940s with contributions from within Palestine, as well as the Mizrahi Organization of Great Britain, and the Mizrahi Women of Britain and America.[3] Within the forest lies the ruins of Ein al-Zeitun, with structures and spring featured along The Fighter's Path trail.[7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  • ^ The Territory of Asher Jewish History
  • ^ a b c d e Jewish National Fund (1949). Jewish Villages in Israel. Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press. p. 191.
  • ^ Tourism and Recreation: Biriya Forest
  • ^ About Kibbutz Hadati Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Religious Kibbutz Movement
  • ^ Making the North Green Again Ynetnews, 20 February 2007
  • ^ Ḳadman, Nogah; Yiftachel, Oren; Ḳadman, Nogah (2015). Erased from space and consciousness: Israel and the depopulated Palestinian villages of 1948. Translated by Reider, Dimi. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01670-6.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Birya&oldid=1181419008"

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