page_title: Kafr Saba
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Kafr Saba / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Qalqilya 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Kafr Saba was a Palestinian Arab village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for more than a millennium. The village was depopulated of its Arab residents by Jewish forces on May 13, 1948, one day before the new State of Israel was declared.
  Presently the remains of the villages consists of two domed shrines located on either side of Route 55 between Kfar Saba and Qalqiliyya. The larger of the two is called Nabi Yamin, situated on the east side. About 40 meters away, on the west side of the road, is a much smaller shrine named Nabi Serakha. The Nabi Yamin shrine was later taken over by a Haredi Jewish sect.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census there were 546 villagers, all  Muslim,  increasing in the 1931 census  to  a population of 765, still all Muslims, in a total of  169 houses.
  The village expanded in the British Mandate period; new houses were built along the highway, and new agricultural land were cultivated to the west of the village. 
  In  the 1945 statistics  it had population of 1,270  Muslims,  while the total land area was 9,688  dunams, according to an official land and population survey.   Of this,  1,026 dunums were used for citrus and bananas, 4,600 dunums for cereals, while 355 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 30 dunums were planted with olive trees.
caption: Kafr Saba 1945 1:250,000
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