From the Pages of the Defter (ص 143)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 143)

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and villages strategized their methods of registration according to their properties and intra-
village social dynamics. An illustrative sampling of four villages will clarify why this is so.
Dayr al-Hawa
Dayr al-Hawa, a village that would be destroyed by Israeli forces in 1948, was situated ona
mountain top, 18.5 kilometers west-southwest of Jerusalem among a cluster of villages both
small and large. (See Image 1.1, District Map.) Dayr al-Hawa was one of the smaller villages in
the district, with just twenty-six residences. These homes were registered to twenty-five
different individuals. Thirteen of these householders also registered vegetable gardens in their
names. Gardens were the only type of agricultural lands that were registered to individuals in
Dayr al-Hawa. According to the Emlak register, there were 85.25 dunams of garden plots in the
village. Twenty-seven gardens were registered to twenty-three individuals. These were small
plots, but only four of them were small enough to qualify as mu/k according to Land Code
reforms. The rest were larger than half a dunam, technically miri. Nine of the gardens were five
dunams or larger; the largest two were eight dunams each.
These gardens were valued across the board at 500 kurus per dunam, equivalent to the district-
wide average. Nine of these plots were claimed by individuals who did not register a residence.
This suggests that these nine were a member of the households of their fathers or of other
relatives. Additionally, there were thirteen householders who did not register a garden in their
names. One of them, Hamad b. S‘ad Safiyya, owned an apparently dilapidated (olive) press
valued at a modest 250 kurus. The other two presses in this tiny village, one belonging to
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Susynne McElrone

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