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16-615: Rafat or RAFAT may refer to: Rafat, Jerusalem , Palestinian town in Jerusalem Governorate Rafat, Salfit , Palestinian town in Salfit Governorate Rafat (given name) Rafat (surname) Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team , also known as the Red Arrows. See also [ edit ] Deir Rafat Dayr Rafat Topics referred to by

32-477: A fragment of a broken column. An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that rafat had 35 houses and a population of 100, though the population count included men, only. In 1883, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Rafat as: "a small hamlet on a ridge, with a spring to the west, and many rock cut tombs." In 1896 the population of Rafat was estimated to be about 195 persons. In

48-468: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rafat, Jerusalem Rafat is located 10.9 km north-west of Jerusalem . It is bordered by Qalandiya to the east, Al Judeira to the north, Ramallah to the west, and Beituniya to the south. Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here. Rafat, like the rest of Palestine ,

64-524: The 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Rafat had a population of 219 Muslims, while according to the 1931 census Rafat had a population of 218 inhabitants, in 46 houses. In the 1945 statistics , Rafat had a population of 280 Muslims, and a land area of 3,777 dunams . Of this, 252 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,965 dunams were for cereals, while 21 dunams were built-up. In

80-774: The Government Office of Statistics and the Department of Lands of the British Mandate Government for the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine which acted in early 1946. The data were calculated as of April 1, 1945, and was later published and also served the UNSCOP committee that operated in 1947. The survey encompasses data on land ownership, its uses, population statistics, and tax payment records. The land data

96-481: The accuracy of its statistics, the report said: The last population census taken in Palestine was that of 1931 . Since that year, the population has grown considerably both as a consequence of Jewish immigration and of the high rate of natural increase among all sections of the population. The rapidity of the change in the size of the population and the length of the period elapsed since the census rendered difficult

112-457: The data for individual districts and settlements. The survey’s editors emphasized that it should be viewed as a rough estimate of the actual population rather than an exact count. Previous versions of the report were prepared in 1938 and 1943. The report found the total population of Palestine to be 1,764,520: there were 1,061,270 Muslims , 553,600 Jews , 135,550 Christians and 14,100 classified as "others" (typically Druze ). Regarding

128-846: The provisions of the Rural Property Tax Ordinance, 1942, the Valuation Lists prepared under the Urban Property Tax Ordinance, 1940, and the Commuted Tithe records for Beersheba Sub-District, in the Gaza District." Israeli geographer Moshe Brawer noted that the report was "an important if not the foremost source of information on population, land possession and land utilization" but questioned its accuracy on several grounds. For example, he wrote that aerial photographs showed

144-406: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rafat . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafat&oldid=815669451 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

160-410: The task of estimating the population. The population estimates published here are the result of a very detailed work conducted by the Department of Statistics, by using all the statistical material available on the subject. They cannot, however, be considered as other than rough estimates which in some instances may ultimately be found to differ even considerably, from the actual figures. The estimates for

176-524: The total area of the village) for the construction of Camp Ofer (later Ofer Prison ). More lands have been confiscated from Rafat for the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier . 637 dunums, which comprises 18.7% of the village’s total area, is isolated behind the wall, on the Israeli side. Village Statistics, 1945 Village Statistics, 1945 was a joint survey work prepared by

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192-507: The wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements , Rafat came under Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population of Rafat was 504. After the Six-Day War in 1967, Rafat has been under Israeli occupation . The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 499, 75% of whom originated from the Israeli territory. According to ARIJ Israel has confiscated 287 dunums of land (8.5% of

208-493: The whole of Palestine are to be considered as more reliable than those for sub-districts, while the sub-district estimates can, in turn, be considered as more reliable than those of the individual localities. Population statistics were prepared in four stages. Regarding the figures for land ownership, the report said: "The areas and ownership have been extracted from the Tax Distribution Lists, prepared under

224-617: Was derived from the work conducted for the Peel Commission and subsequently updated by the Mandate Government’s Lands Department. The population data was based on the 1931 census of Palestine , updated with information from various partial censuses primarily conducted in the Jewish sector, along with immigration and natural reproduction data. The data for the entire Land of Israel is deemed more reliable than

240-590: Was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was noted in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds . The population was 27 households, all Muslim . The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 3,300 akçe . In 1838, it

256-550: Was noted as a Muslim village in the Jerusalem District. During this time, residents from Rafat settled Danyal near al-Ramla , establishing it as a dependency – or satellite village – of their home village. In 1863 Victor Guérin found Rafat to have one hundred and twenty inhabitants, and was located on a mound. It had mosque is dedicated to Sheikh Ahmed . He further noted that in some houses several stones looked of an ancient appearance. In one house he found

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