Jarisha was located only 200 meters (660 ft) from
Tel Gerisa, an
archaeological site dating to the Early Bronze II period (2800-2600 BC). In the Middle Bronze period (2000-1500 BC) the site was a fortified
Hyksos town. It was succeeded by a
Philistine settlement around the 12th century BC.[7]
Ottoman period
In the 1596
tax records under the
Ottoman Empire, it was a village in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of the Bani Sa'b, part of
Nablus Sanjak. It had a population of 22
Muslim households; an estimated 121 persons, who paid taxes on buffalo, goats and beehives; a total of 2,150
akçe.[8]
In 1856 the village was named Darishah on
Kiepert's map of Palestine published that year.[9] An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that the village had a population of 76 in a total of 38 houses, though that population count included men, only. It was further noted that it was located 6000 meters NE of
Jaffa.[10][11]
In 1882 the
PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village, transcribed as "Jerisheh", as being built of
adobe bricks and flanked by an
olive grove. It had a
well and a
mill.[12] South-east of the village was the ruins of a
Khan, a graveyard and some caves, also a masonry dam and a small bridge, "apparently
Saracenic".[13]
Since May 1944, Jarisha was part of the municipality of
Ramat Gan.[16]
In the
1945 statistics it had a population of 190 Muslims,[3] with 555
dunams of land.[2] The villagers worked in the service industry, but some also grew fruits and vegetables; in 1944-45 a total of 302 dunums of village land was used for citrus and bananas, and 89 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.[17] 3 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[18]
1948, and after
According to the Palestinian historian
Walid Khalidi, the state of the village site in 1992 was as follows: "The site has been completely covered over by highways and suburban houses."[19]
Gallery
Seven Mills sign in
Yarkon Park: “Nothing remains of the impoverished Jarisha village which was situated here in the past”
Jarisha village in the Map of Jaffa Tel Aviv Compiled, drawn and printed by the
Survey of Palestin 1944
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