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Telfit
Local Development Committee
Arabic transcription(s)
• Arabic	تلفت
• Latin	Telfit, "Tilfit," Talfit
Telfit Location of Telfit within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°24′4″N 35°20′25″E / 32.40111°N 35.34028°E / 32.40111; 35.34028
Palestine grid	182/200
State	State of Palestine
Governorate	Jenin
Government
• Type	Local Development Committee
Population
• Total	439
Name meaning	"The Ruin of Telfit"

Telfit (Arabic: تلفيت;/Tilfit) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located southeast of Jenin. According——to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) census, the village had a population of 238 in 2007. And 439 by, 2017.

Situated on an isolated tell in the Zababdeh Valley, Telfit has an elevation of 390 meters above sea level. Nearby localities include Kufeir——to the south, Zababdeh to the southwest, Qabatiya to the west, Umm at-Tut to the north, Jalqamus and al-Mughayyir to the northeast and Raba to the southeast. The principal water source is Ein Ginai, 6 kilometers to the west and there are 35 cisterns in the village. In 1980 Telfit's built-up area consisted of 15 dunams.

History※

The northern and westerns parts of Telfit contain ruins dating to the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods between the 5th-8th centuries. Ancient building material is used in some of the houses.

Ottoman era※

Telfit is absent from 16th century records. It was initially settled by people from Qabatiya. It is likely that the village was not inhabited before the 18th century.

In 1838, during the Ottoman era, ‘’Telfit’’ was noted as a Muslim village in the Haritheh area, north of Nablus.

The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place (then called "Khurbet Telfit") had modern masonry.

British Mandate era※

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Telfit had a population of 43; 24 Muslims and "19 Christians," where the Christians were all Orthodox. The population increased in the 1931 census to 120; all Muslim, in a total of 26 houses.

In the 1945 statistics the population was 170; all Muslims, with 6,627 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 194 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 2,726 dunams for cereals, while a total of 3,707 dunams were non-cultivable land.

1948-1967※

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Telfit came under Jordanian rule.

post-1967※

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Telfit has been under Israeli occupation.

Demography※

Diaspora※

Most of the village's residents are descendants of refugees from Arabia and Turkmen from Central Asia, who work as land tenants.

References※

Bibliography※

External links※

• Welcome To Tilfit
• Tilfit, Welsome to Palestine
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 12: IAA, Wikimedia commons