Ein al-Asad

Ein al-Asad (Arabic: عين الأسد "the lion's spring", Hebrew: עין אל-אסד) is a Druze village in northern Israel. Located near Maghar in the Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. As of 2022 it had a population of 920.

History

The community was founded in the mid to late 19th century by Druze from nearby Beit Jann, who were later joined by Druze migrants from Lebanon and Jabal al-Druze in Syria. It was named after an eponymous wellspring outside the village.

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ein al-Asad had a population of 48, of whom 47 were Druze and one a Christian, increasing in the 1931 census to 81; 80 Druze and one Christian and a total of 18 houses. In the 1945 statistics, the population of Ein al-Asad together with Beit Jann was 1,640, all classified as "others" (meaning Druze, 120 of which were indicated as being in Ein al-Asad), who owned 43,550 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey. 2,530 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, while 7,406 dunams were used for cereals and 67 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

See also

• Druze in Israel

References

Bibliography

External links

• Welcome To 'Ayn al-'Asad
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons