Summary
Jewish agricultural colony (spelled Kefr Saba in the report) north-east of Jaffa, founded about 1906 by some 20 persons with the aid of Edmond de Rothschild, abandoned and destroyed in the attack of 3 May 1921 (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.39-40).
Details
- Before the War the colony had 22 dwelling houses and 5,000 dunums under cultivation; Turkish wartime cutting reduced cultivation to 1,000 dunums (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.39).
- On 3 May its Arab labourers were called back to Kalkilieh, the colonists retired to Ain Hai and then to Petah Tikvah, Abu Kishk Arabs seized 20 head of cattle, and on 6 May two houses were found burned and the rest stripped, one house and a pump and engine destroyed; the small colony of Ain Hai (four houses) was destroyed (Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, PDF p.39-40).
Related pages
Palestine. Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence Relating Thereto, Petah Tikvah, Jaffa Riots of May 1921