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Daburiyya
דַבּוּרִיָּה, דבורייה
دبورية
Local council (from 1961)
Hebrew transcription(s)
• ISO 259 Dabburiya
• Also spelled Deburieh (unofficial)
Daburiyya
Location within Israel
Daburiyya
Location within Jezreel Valley region of Israel
Coordinates: 32°41′31″N 35°22′18″E / 32.69194°N 35.37167°E
Grid position 185/232 PAL
Country Israel
District Northern
Subdistrict Jezreel
Area
• Total 7,200 dunams (7.2 km2; 2.8 sq mi)
Population
(2024)[1]
• Total 10,830
• Density 1,500/km2 (3,900/sq mi)

Daburiyya (Arabic: دبورية; Hebrew: דַבּוּרִיָּה),[2] also Deburieh or Dabburieh, is an Arab local council around 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Nazareth in Israel's Northern District. Daburriya gained local council status in 1961. Its jurisdiction extends over 7,200 dunams. In 2024 it had a population of 10,830;[1] 99.8% of the population was Muslim and 0.2% was Christian.[3]

Daburiyya is located off of Highway 65 at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee, near the area where the prophetess Deborah judged.

History

Daburiyya is identified with the biblical city of Daberath[4] (also spelled Davrat), which in Joshua 21:28 and in the Book of Chronicles was allotted to the tribe of Issachar, who gave it as a Levitical city to the Levites.[5][6]

Minor archaeological surveys, salvage and trial digs conducted in the village, including some in 2004 and 2006, uncovered pottery and other fragmentary remains from the Iron Age to the Ottoman period. The 2000s digs brought to light ceramic from the Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad and Mamluk periods, sparse building remains from the Late Roman or Byzantine period, and a probable terrace wall datable to the Middle Bronze Age and/or the Roman period, as well as rock-cut installations such as winepresses and cupmarks.[7][8]

Classical period

During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the Greek name of the place was Dabráth or Dabiroth and its Latin name was Dabareth.[6] Josephus called it Dabarittha (Greek: Δαβαρίθθων, "Dabarithon").[6][9]

During the first year of the Great Jewish Revolt, in 66 CE, a group of young men from Dabaritta ambushed Ptolemy, the financial overseer of King Agrippa II, and his sister Berenice, stealing valuable items including rich robes, silver goblets, and gold coins. They brought the loot to Josephus in Tarichaeae, expecting praise, but Josephus reprimanded them, intending to return the stolen goods to Agrippa, which led the young men to accuse Josephus of treachery and incite disturbances against him.[10]

In the early 4th-century CE Onomasticon, Eusebius refers to the place as Dabeira and Dabrath, and describes it as "a village of Jews".[11]

Daburiyya has been identified by some with the locality of Helenopolis of the Roman-Byzantine period,[12] but Helenopolis is more commonly identified with Kafr Kama[13] or another town or region.[14]

Crusaders

After being part of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Daburiyya was retaken by Saladin in 1187[15] and a mosque, possibly built above an old Crusader tower,[16] has an inscription above the entrance stating that it was built in AH 610 (1214 CE) by the Damascus-based Ayyubid ruler al-Mu'azzam 'Isa.[17] What was interpreted as remains of a Crusader church could still be seen in the 18th century in the center of Daburiyya.[18][19]

Ottoman Empire

In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 Dabburiya appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under Safad Sanjak, with a population of 40 households and 3 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat and barley, fruit trees, cotton, as well as on goats and/or beehives; a total of 5,500 akçe.[20][21]

The village was mentioned as 'Debourah' by Richard Pococke during his visit to the area in 1737. He noted it lied on raised ground at the western foot of Mount Tabor and contained a ruined church.[22] A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as Dabouri.[23]

19th century

In 1838, it was noted as a Muslim village in the Nazareth district.[24] It was found "small and unimportant", with the visible ruins of a Christian church.[25]

Victor Guérin visited in the 1875, and noted "Among the houses may be remarked the remains of an ancient edifice, measuring twenty-two paces in length by ten in breadth, and built from west to east. It was once constructed of cut stones and a certain number of courses are still standing. The interior is now occupied by a private house and a stable, above which rises the medafeh—a house set apart for strangers. In all probability this was a Christian Church."[26]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Deburieh as "A small village built of stone, with inhabited caves; contains about 200 Moslems and is surrounded by gardens of figs and olives. It is situated on the slope of the hill. Water is obtained from cisterns in the village."[27] A population list from about 1887 showed that ed Deburieh had about 300 inhabitants; all Muslims.[28]

British Mandate

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Dabburieh had a total population of 602, all Muslim,[29] which had increased in the 1931 census to 747; 728 Muslims and 19 Christians, in a total of 170 houses.[30]

In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,290, 1,260 Muslims and 30 Christians,[31] with 13,373 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[32] Of this, 723 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 12,581 for cereals,[33] while 65 dunams were built-up land.[34]

Israel

In 2008 and 2009 Daburiyya High School received the National Education Award, achieving second and third place. It was the first time that a school in Israel has won the award twice in a row. The principal, Abed Elsalam Masalcha, attributed the positive developments in the school to the introduction of a Transcendental Meditation program which solved student discipline problems.[35]

In 2009 the Israeli Education Ministry said it would shut down the town's high school of sciences, which had 210 students that year, because it was operating without a permit. The school, located in a building intended for a housing project, specialized in biology, physics, chemistry and computer science and had a 100% matriculation success rate. It was a branch of the I'billin-based Mar Elias School. According to the local parents' association, the school was opened because the local high school had become "chaotic and the police needed to frequently intervene between students."[36]

Demographics

Historical population[37][38]
Year Pop. ±%
1972 3,100 —
1983 4,500 +45.2%
1995 6,300 +40.0%
2008 8,900 +41.3%
2022 10,480 +17.8%
2024 10,830 +3.3%

Voting Patterns

In the 2022 election, 97 percent of voters in Daburiyya voted for the Arab parties, while 2 percent voted for the parties of the center-left coalition led by Yair Lapid and 1 percent voted for the parties of the right-wing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu. Among the voters for the Arab parties, 36 percent voted for the Hadash–Ta'al list, while 35 percent voted for Balad and 29 percent voted for Ra'am.[39]

See also

References

  1. Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  2. Back to citation Palmer, 1881, p. 125
  3. Back to citation "דבורייה" (PDF). Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  4. Back to citation Negev and Gibson, 2001, p 130
  5. Back to citation Keil, 1857, p. 424.
  6. Back to citation occurrence 6.0 Back to citation occurrence 6.1 Back to citation occurrence 6.2 Sharon, 2004, pp. 1–4
  7. Back to citation Abu Raya, Rafeh (April 2009). "Dabburiya, Final Report". Retrieved 2010-08-28.
  8. Back to citation Daniel, Zohar (February 2010). "Dabburiya, Final Report". Retrieved 2010-08-28.
  9. Back to citation Josephus, The Jewish War (Book II, chapter XXI, verse 3).
  10. Back to citation Rogers, Guy MacLean (2021). For the Freedom of Zion: the Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 193–194, 536. ISBN 978-0-300-24813-5.
  11. Back to citation Sharon, Moshe (1997). "DABBŪRIYAH". Corpus inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP). Vol. 3: D-F. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-11006-9. OCLC 36892812.
  12. Back to citation Abel, 1938, vol. 2, pp. 205, 347
  13. Back to citation Tsafrir, Di Segni and Green, 1994, p. 142
  14. Back to citation James F. Strange. "Nazareth". Anchor Bible Dictionary. p. 1050; Petersen, 2005, p. X; Michael Avi-Yonah (1976). Gazetteer of Roman Palestine. QEDEM 5. Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and CARTA. p. 64.
  15. Back to citation Abu Shama (RHC or, IV, pp. 301, 303), cited in Pringle, 1993, p. 192
  16. Back to citation Pringle, 1997, p. 46
  17. Back to citation Petersen, 2001, p. 131
  18. Back to citation Pococke, 1745, vol 2, p. 65; cited in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 210
  19. Back to citation Pringle, 1993, pp. 192, 193
  20. Back to citation Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189
  21. Back to citation Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2016-10-10 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied from the Safad-district was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  22. Back to citation Pococke 1745, p. 65.
  23. Back to citation Karmon, 1960, p. 167 Archived 2018-09-28 at the Wayback Machine.
  24. Back to citation Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 132
  25. Back to citation Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 210, 229
  26. Back to citation Guérin, 1880, p. 140 ff, as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 384
  27. Back to citation Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 363.
  28. Back to citation Schumacher, 1888, p. 182
  29. Back to citation Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p. 38
  30. Back to citation Mills, 1932, p. 73
  31. Back to citation Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8
  32. Back to citation Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62
  33. Back to citation Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 109
  34. Back to citation Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 159
  35. Back to citation Forim, Jack. Transcendental Meditation. (2012). Hay House, Inc. ISBN 140193157X
  36. Back to citation Arab parents battle ministry over science HS. Haaretz. 2009-10-18.
  37. Back to citation "Regional Statistics". www.cbs.gov.il. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
  38. Back to citation "Additional files - census 2008". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved July 15, 2026.
  39. Back to citation "The true results of the elections for the 25th Knesset". Israel: Central Elections Committee. November 1, 2022. Retrieved July 7, 2026.

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