Zif, Hebron

Zif
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	زيف
Zif Location of Zif within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 31°28′47.38″N 35°07′19.17″E / 31.4798278°N 35.1219917°ECoordinates: 31°28′47.38″N 35°07′19.17″E / 31.4798278°N 35.1219917°E
Governorate	Hebron
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	848

Zif (Arabic: زيف‎‎) is a Palestinian village located 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) south of Hebron. The village is in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Zif had a population of 848 in 2007.^[1] The primary health care facilities in the village itself are designated by the Ministry of Health as level 1 and at nearby Yatta as level 3.^[2]

History

Zif had a Jewish population until at least the 4th century, but it became Christian during the Byzantine period.^[3]

Ottoman era

In 1838 Edward Robinson identified the modern town of Zif and its adjacent Tell Zif with the Biblical Ziph.^[4]

Claude Reignier Conder (1875) located his tomb as being the "fine sepulchral monument" immediately south of the present Tell Zif.^[5]

Modern era

Zif has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.

In September 2002, a bomb filled with screws and nails, planted by Jewish settlers, exploded in the village's school, wounding five children. A second bomb was found by the school's principal and was detonated by Israeli bomb experts.^[6]

References

1. 2007 PCBS Census Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. p.119.
2. West Bank Health care
3. The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine. Eisenbrauns. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-4575-0070-1. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
4. Robinson and Smith, 1842, vol 2, pp. 191, 195, 200
5. Palestine Exploration Fund. January 1886. 1886. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
6. Schmemann, Serge (2002-09-18). "Bomb Explodes at Palestinian School, Hurting 5 Children". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-09.

Bibliography

• Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (pp. 315, 379)
• Guérin, Victor (1869). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 1: Judee, pt. 3. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
• Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (p. 408)
• (1885): Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund Volume: 17-18
• Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 2. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.

External links

• Zif Village | قرية زيف on Facebook
• Zif Village (Fact Sheet)
• Zif Village Profile
• Zif aerial photo
• The priorities and needs for development in Zif village based on the community and local authorities’ assessment
• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons