Khirbat al-Muntar
Place in Safad, Mandatory Palestine
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Khirbat al-Muntar was a Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War by Palmach's First Battalion and 'Oded Brigade of Operation Yiftach after resistance by the Syrian Army. It was located 8.5 km east of Safad.
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Khirbat al-Muntar
خربة المُنطار | |
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  Khirbat al-Muntar Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°59′21″N 35°34′13″E | |
| Palestine grid | 205/265 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Safad |
History
In 1838, Edward Robinson noted al-Muntar as an encampment of Turkish and Kurdish nomads.[1]
At the end of the 19th century, much of the land was purchased by Baron Rothschild, and Mahanayim was established in 1898 on former Khirbat al-Muntar land. Mahanayim failed and was abandoned, but reestablished in 1939.[2]
In the 1945 statistics, during the British Mandate of Palestine, Khirbat al-Muntar was counted under Mahanayim, and Arabs owned only 52 dunams out of a total of 2,472 dunums of land.[3][4] All of the 52 dunums were for used cereals.[5][6]