Jarisha
جرِيشة
Jerisha, Jarush
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Old mill at Jarisha, about 1917
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| Etymology: Jerisheh, from "to pound" or "grind"[1] | |
A series of historical maps of the area around Jarisha (click the buttons)
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  Jarisha Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°5′43″N 34°48′28″E / 32.09528°N 34.80778°E / 32.09528; 34.80778 | |
| Palestine grid | 132/167 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Jaffa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 555 dunams (55.5 ha or 137 acres) |
| Population
(1945)
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| • Total | 190[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv,[4] Ramat Gan |
Jarisha (Arabic: جرِيشة, also transliterated Jerisha; Hebrew: ג'רישה) was a Palestinian Arab village located 200 meters (660 ft) from the ancient site of Tell Jarisha (Tel Gerisa), on the south bank of Al-Awja (Yarkon River).[5][6] After the establishment of Tel Aviv, it was one of five Arab villages to fall within its municipal boundaries.[4] Jarisha was depopulated in the lead up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.[6]
Jarisha was located only 200 meters (660 ft) from Tel Gerisa, an archaeological site dating to the Early Bronze II period (2800-2600 BC). In the Middle Bronze period (2000-1500 BC) the site was a fortified Hyksos town. It was succeeded by a Philistine settlement around the 12th century BC.[7]
In the 1596 tax records under the Ottoman Empire, it was a village in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of the Bani Sa'b, part of Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 22 Muslim households; an estimated 121 persons, who paid taxes on buffalo, goats and beehives; a total of 2,150 akçe.[8]
In 1856 the village was named DarishahonKiepert's map of Palestine published that year.[9] An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that the village had a population of 76 in a total of 38 houses, though that population count included men, only. It was further noted that it was located 6000 meters NE of Jaffa.[10][11]
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village, transcribed as "Jerisheh", as being built of adobe bricks and flanked by an olive grove. It had a well and a mill.[12] South-east of the village was the ruins of a Khan, a graveyard and some caves, also a masonry dam and a small bridge, "apparently Saracenic".[13]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jerisheh had a population of 57, all Muslims[14] increasing by the 1931 census to 183, still all Muslims, in a total of 43 houses.[15]
Since May 1944, Jarisha was part of the municipality of Ramat Gan.[16]
In the 1945 statistics it had a population of 190 Muslims,[3] with 555 dunams of land.[2] The villagers worked in the service industry, but some also grew fruits and vegetables; in 1944-45 a total of 302 dunums of village land was used for citrus and bananas, and 89 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[17] 3 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[18]
According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the state of the village site in 1992 was as follows: "The site has been completely covered over by highways and suburban houses."[19]
