Salim () is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, located six kilometers east of Nablus and is a part of the Nablus Governorate. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Salim had a population of 6,266 inhabitants in 2017.

Location Salim is located east of Nablus. It is bordered by Beit Dajan to the east, Deir al Hatab to the north and west, Beit Dajan and Beit Furik to the south.Salim Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4

History

The village is ancient with foundations of houses.Dauphin, 1998, p. 847 The village has been populated in Early Bronze I, Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad and Crusader/Ayyubid eras.Finkelstein et al., 1997, p. 817 In 1882, traces of ruins, cisterns, a ruined tank, and a cemetery of rock-cut tombs were noted.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 244

Salim dates back to the Middle Bronze Age. It was near the ancient Canaanite and later Israelite town of Shechem.Sychem also Sikima and Salim - (Tell Balatah) Studium Biblicum Franciscanum - Jerusalem. 19 December 2000.

Salem was large and ancient Samaritan village. According to Samaritan tradition, Salim was founded by the biblical figure of Jared son of Mahalalel, and this is where 4th-century High Priest Baba Rabba built his sixth synagogue. Samaritan texts refer to the place as "Shalem Rabbta", and mention that Samaritan High Priests live there.Conder, 1876, p. 196

Salim is also mentioned in the Samaritan Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle of Abu l-Fath. The text mentions an event during the Fourth Fitna (811–819) when a rebel named Abu 'Uf, from the Judham tribe, reached Salem and was killed there during battles between Muslim factions.

Ottoman era In 1517, Salim was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine. In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 42 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives, and for a press for olives or grapes; a total of 10,432 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 130.

In 1838, Robinson noted Salim as a village in the same area as the villages Azmut and Deir al-Hatab,Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. 95, 102 all were part of the El-Beitawy district, east of Nablus.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 128

In May, 1870, Guérin came to the village, after walking through fields of olives, figs and almond trees. He found a village with a maximum of 200 people, in ancient houses. A dozen cisterns in the village were dry, so the women had to fetch water from a stream, called Ain Salim, about 1 kilometre north-northwest of the village.Guérin, 1874, p. 456 ff

In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Salim as a small village, but evidently ancient, surrounded by olive-trees and with two springs to the north.Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 230

British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Salem had a population of 423, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Nablus, p. 24 while in the 1931 census, Salim, including El Hamra, had 100 occupied houses and a population of 490, again all Muslim.Mills, 1932, p. 64

In the 1945 statistics Salim had a population of 660, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 19 with 10,293 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 61 Of this, 229 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 5,158 used for cereals,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 107 while 24 dunams were built-up land.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 157

Jordanian era During the 1948 war the area was held by units from the Iraqi Army.Morris, Benny (1993) Israel's Border Wars, 1949 - 1956. Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. Oxford University Press, . pp.146.147 In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Salim came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 888 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26

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

After the 1995 accords 27% of the village land is defined to be Area B land, while the remaining 73% is in Area C.Salim Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15

See also Havat Skali Ma'ale Iron, including village Salim, northeast of Umm al-Fahm

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External links Welcome To Salim Survey of Western Palestine, Map 12: IAA, Wikimedia commons Salim Village Profile, Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) Salim, aerial photo, ARIJ Development priorities and needs in Salim, ARIJ "A Palestinian woman cries in her home after a raid on Sunday by Israeli troops searching for three abducted Israeli teens, in Salim", Haaretz, Jun. 23, 2014 Settlers Activities Case Study ... Salim village land 11 October 2001, POICA The Village of Salem Between the Israeli Military Occupation and the Israeli Settlements 18 December 2005, POICA Elon Moreh Settlers Contaminate Drinking Water in Deir Al Hatab Village 20 September 2007, POICA Israeli Halt-of-Construction Orders to 17 Palestinian houses in Salim Village 3 September 2009, POICA Under the pretext of building in zone C "Halt of construction orders against 17 Palestinian houses and barracks in Salim village" 7 September 2009, POICA