page_title: Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Ijlil al-Shamaliyya / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Herzliya 1942 1:20,000
context_page_description: Ijlil al-Shamaliyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 3, 1948.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the twin villages of Ijlil (spelled Jelil) had a population of 154, all Muslims,  increasing by the 1931 census to 305, still all Muslim.  In 1943 Glil Yam was founded on what was traditionally village land, to the east of the village site.
  In the 1945 statistics the population of Ijlil al-Shamaliyya consisted of 190 Muslims and the land area was 2,450  dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this land, 183 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 13 for plantations and irrigable land, 1,574 for cereals, while seven dunams were built-up areas. Also in 1945, a school was founded in the village and shared with Ijlil al-Qibliyya. It had 64 students in its first year. The village also had a mosque and several small shops.
caption: Ijlil al-Shamaliyya 1942 1:20,000 (bottom left)
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