Bu'eine Nujeidat

Bu'eine Nujeidat (; ) is an Arab local council in the Northern District of Israel. Made up of two villages, Bu'eine and Nujeidat, they merged in 1987 and were recognized as one local council in 1996. In its population was ; 99,9% was Muslim and 0.1% was Christian.

History Bu'eine is a village located on an ancient site.Dauphin, 1998, p. 721 A small jug from the Iron Age, and potsherds from the Roman and Byzantine periods have been found here.Dalali-Amos, 2006, Bu‘eina A possible Roman or Byzantine grave is also located here.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 381-382

Potsherds from the early Islamic and Mamluk period have also been found.Porat, 2007, Bu‘eina

Ottoman Empire In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as al-Bu'ayna, located in the Nahiya of Tabariyya, part of Safad Sanjak. The population was 38 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, fruit trees and cotton, in addition to occasional revenues, and goats and beehives; a total of 2420 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 189Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9

A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed Bu'eine, named as Beni.Karmon, 1960, p. 166 .

In 1875, when Victor Guérin visited, the village had at most 150 inhabitants.Guérin, 1880, pp. 363-364 Guérin further noted that "below the village, on the north-east side, a curious reservoir cut in the rock, with three troughs. Steps lead down into it. Within it is covered with a thick cement, and vaulted over with cut stones. The water formerly flowed into it through a conduit now choked. The mosque of the village is an ancient church, a new door having been made in the north side. The slopes of the hill were formerly covered with houses, built in terraces. Rude characters were found traced on the rocks about 600 paces to the east of the village."Guérin, 1880, pp. 363-364; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 382

In 1881 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described El Baineh as, "a village built on the hillside, containing 200 Moslem inhabitants. It possesses a spring, and there are olive-groves in the plain to the north."Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 362-363

British Mandate In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bu’aniyeh had a population of 212, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p. 38 increasing in the 1931 census to 349, of whom 2 were Jews and the rest Muslims, in a total of 67 occupied houses.Mills, 1932, p. 73

In the 1945 statistics the population of Bu'eina was 540, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 8 while the total land area was 9,214 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 62 Of this, 782 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 13,223 for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 109 while 30 dunams were classified as built-up areas.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 159 All the inhabitants were Muslim.Village Statistics April 1945, The Palestine Government, p. 8

Israel Bu'eine was captured by the Israeli army during the second part of Operation Dekel, 15–18 July 1948.Morris, 1987, p. 200 It remained under Martial Law until 1966.

Demographics

Voting Patterns In the 2022 election, 95 percent of voters in Bu'eine Nujeidat voted for the Arab parties, while 2 percent voted for the parties of the center-left coalition led by Yair Lapid and 2 percent voted for the parties of the right-wing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu. Among the voters for the Arab parties, 59 percent voted for Ra'am, while 25 percent voted for Balad and 16 percent voted for the Hadash–Ta'al list.

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