- Fureidis
Infobox Israel municipality
name=Fureidis
caption=Fureidis seen from Highway 4
imgsize=250
hebname=פוריידיס
arname=فريديس
meaning=
founded=1880
type=lc
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stdHeb=
altOffSp=
altUnoSp=
district=haifa
population=10,000
popyear=2005
area_dunam=2690mayor=
Fureidis or Freidis is an Arab local council in the
Haifa District . Founded in 1880, it received local council status in 1952. Its name is probably derived from the Arabic ("firdawis"), meaning littleGarden of Eden , which itself is borrowed from the Persian "paradise ".Fureidis is the only one survivor of many pre-1948 Palestinian villages along the Meditteranean shore of what is now Israel, all other sea-shore villages having been depopuated and destroyed in the course of the 1948 war. Fureidis residents are known as Arab citizens of Israel on good terms with the State since the beginning; specifically, they were on good terms with neighboring Jewish communities whose inhaboitnats interevened to to spare this village the fate of its neighbors. In trecent years, inhabitants of Fureidis complained of discrimiantory attitudes by state authorities and of low living standards and crime problems in the village.
Further reading
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Benny Morris (1994): "1948 and After." ISBN 0-19-827929-9. (Chapter 8, p. 257-289: The Case ofAbu Ghosh andBeit Naqquba , Al Fureidis and Jisr Zarka in 1948 -or Why Four Villages Remained.)See also
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List of Arab localities in Israel
* [http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/press/parlos_presskit.pdf "Fureidis, Paradise Lost," a documentary by Ebtisam Mara’ana]
* [http://www.forward.com/articles/7859/ Forward article about "Paradise Lost"]
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