page_title: Al-Sarafand
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Sarafand / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Jaba' 1945 1:250,000
context_page_description: Al-Sarafand was a Palestinian Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596. According to a land and population survey by Sami Hadawi, al-Sarafand's population was 290 in 1945, entirely Arab.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the  British Mandate authorities,  Sarafand had a population of 204; all Muslims,  decreasing in the 1931 census to 188; still all Muslim, in a total of  38 houses.
  The village economy depended on agriculture, animal husbandry and salt making.
  In the  1945 statistics,  the  village had a population of 290 Muslims, and the village's lands spanned 5,409 dunams.  The population was entirely Muslim.  A total of 3,244 dunums of land was allocated to cereals; 22  dunums were irrigated or used for orchards,  while 6 dunams were built-up (urban) land.
caption: Al-Sarafand (Sarafand) 1945 1:250,000
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