page_title: Yavne
section_title: Ottoman and Mandate Periods
hierarchical_section_title: Yavne / History / Ottoman and Mandate Periods
caption_attribution_description: English: Yibna 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Yavne or Yavneh is a city in the Central District of Israel. In many English translations of the Bible, it is known as Jabneh. During Greco-Roman times, it was known as Jamnia; to the Crusaders as Ibelin; and before 1948, as Yibna.
context_section_description: For the Arab village of Yibna during the Ottoman and Mandate periods (to 1948), see Yibna.
  In mid-March 1948, a contingent of Iraqi soldiers moved into the village. In a Haganah reprisal on 30 March, two dozen villagers were killed. On April 21, the Iraqi village commander was arrested in Jaffa for drunkenly shooting two Arabs.
caption: Yibna 1945
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