page_title: Fajja
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Fajja / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Majdal Yaba 1941 1:20,000
context_page_description: Fajja was a Palestinian town located 15 kilometers northeast of Jaffa.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Fajjeh had a population of 164, all Muslims,  increasing sharply in the  1931 census, to 707, still all Muslims, in a total of 165 houses.
  The town had one elementary school, founded in 1922. By 1945 it had 181 students, including 10 females.
  In the 1945 statistics, Fajja had  1,200 Muslim inhabitants, in addition to 370 Jews, and a total land area of 4,419 dunams. Of this, a total of 768 dunums was used for citrus and bananas,  61 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 3,863 used for cereals,   while 7 dunams were classified as built-up areas.
caption: Fajja 1941 1:20,000
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