Kafr Yasif
In the 1740s ten Jewish households under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Soloman Abadi settled in Kafr Yasif and were joined by a number of other Jews, leaving Safad in the early 1760s as a result of the Near East earthquakes of 1759. According to Jewish travelers, the Jews in Kafr Yasif lived well under the auspices of Arab Zahir al-Umar, the autonomous Ottoman ruler of the Galilee (1730–1775), whose tolerance had allowed for the initial establishment of the village's Jewish community. A map by Pierre Jacotin from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 showed the place, named as "Koufour Youcef".