Original sentence: An Arab village, Saffuriya, was later established but depopulated in 1948.Tzippori used to be the center of Jewish religious and spiritual life in the Galilee and remains of a 6th century synagogue  have been uncovered in the lower section of the city
Edited sentence: In the 7th century, it came under the rule of the Arab caliphates like much of the rest of Palestine.Successive Arab and Islamic imperial authorities ruled the area until the end of the first Worl War I.Tzippori once served as a center of Jewish religious and spiritual life in the Galilee and remains of a 6th century synagogue have been uncovered in the lower section of the city.Until the forcible expulsion of its inhabitants by Israeli forces in 1948, Saffuriya was an Arab village