- Al-Khayriyya
Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine
name=Al-Khayriyya
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arname=الخيْريّة
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altSp=el-Kheiriyah, Kheiriya
district=jf
population=914
popyear=1931
area=13,672
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date=28 April 1948 -30 April 1948
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curlocl=Giv'atayim Al-Khayriyya ( _ar. الخيْريّة) was a Palestinian village located 7.5 kilometers east of
Jaffa . Its inhabitants fled as a result of a military assault by theAlexandroni Brigade of the pre-stateIsrael i forces in the lead up to the1948 Arab-Israeli war .Morris, 2004, p. 217.]At the time of Assyrian rule in
Palestine , al-Khayriyya was known as "Banai Berka" and during Roman rule, it was known as by "Beneberak".cite web|title=Welcome to al-Khayriyya|publisher=Palestine Remembered|accessdate=2007-12-04|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Jaffa/al-Khayriyya/index.html] Arab villagers had called it "Ibn Ibraq", preserving the ancient name.Freedman, 2000, p. 165.] Cancik et al., 1996, p. 484.] At the time of the British Mandate in Palestine however, the villagers changed the name of the village to al-Khayriyya to distinguish it from the new neighbouringJewish village ofBene Beraq .The suburbs of modern-day
Giv'atayim stretch into the former lands of the village of al-Khayriyya.ee also
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Hiriya References
Bibliography
*Cancik, Hubert, Peter Schäfer and Hermann Lichtenberger (1996). " [http://books.google.ca/books?id=VlT2Ox0x0N4C&pg=PA484&dq=ibn+ibraq&sig=eRsb9XjwNh8isxh-4RJ0JG8muEc Geschichte-Tradition-Reflexion: Festschrift Für Martin Hengel Zum 70. Geburtstag] ". Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 3161466756
*Freedman, David Noel (2000). " [http://books.google.ca/books?id=qRtUqxkB7wkC&pg=PA165&dq=kheiriyah&sig=gdyfdR2_Ot3im6AKJXNJZsXhzWc Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible] ". Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 0802824005
*Morris, Benny (2004). " [http://books.google.ca/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=RA1-PA217&dq=kheiriya&sig=IBf8ESqaW5cBPuQ9lBwY9vcBy8U#PRA1-PA217,M1 The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited] .Cambridge University Press . ISBN 0521009677
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