Al-Sarafand
Vanished settlement · Mandatory Palestine
- Abandoned
- 1948
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 290
- Coordinates
- 32.647, 34.936
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Al-Sarafand was a Palestinian Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596. According to a land and population survey by Sami Hadawi, al-Sarafand's population was 290 in 1945, entirely Arab.