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Depopulated village in Mandatory Palestine
Lifta (Arabic: لفتا; Hebrew: ליפתא) was a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled
Lifta
Water spring in Jerusalem
cubic meters of water a year (compared to 125,000 cubic meters for the Lifta spring in West Jerusalem). The spring is under the control of the Israeli
Gihon_Spring
residents of Lifta left the village soon after a series of Haganah and Irgun attacks in late December killed seven people" Avinoam Shalem, Lifta's Silence
Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war
Killings_and_massacres_during_the_1948_Palestine_war
1959 American epic film directed by William Wyler
Ben-Hur filming site near Lifta, intended to represent Jerusalem
Ben-Hur_(1959_film)
Member of the PLO Executive Committee
organization.[additional citation(s) needed] Hammuda was born in the village of Lifta in 1908.[citation needed] Following the Nakba, Hammuda took part in an attempt
Yahya_Hammuda
Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
p. 132 n. 12, "The massacre at Deir Yassin was frequently cited in the Lifta accounts as having been a landmark, a focal point in the events of the Nakba
Nakba
One of the twelve Tribes of Israel
Kefar Lifta (كفر لفتا), and situated on the left-hand side of the road as one enters Jerusalem. It is now an abandoned Arab village. The word Lifta is merely
Tribe_of_Benjamin
Zionist paramilitary organization (1931–1948)
Irgun carried out a number of operations. An Arab bus making its way from Lifta was attacked in Jerusalem. In two other locations in Jerusalem, Arabs were
Irgun
Arab–Jewish clashes in Mandatory Palestine
Shearim and the Bukharim quarter, on the outskirts of the village lands of Lifta, following a quarrel which began when he and his friends tried to retrieve
1929_Palestine_riots
Religious site in Jerusalem
B'nei Yehuda, a messianic cult of former gangsters turned mystics based in Lifta, trying to infiltrate the area to blow it up. On 15 January 1988, during
Temple_Mount
American documentary filmmaker
films Colliding Dreams, co-directed with Joseph Dorman, and The Ruins of Lifta, co-directed with Menachem Daum, were both released theatrically in 2016
Oren_Rudavsky
Neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel
lifted high (romem)". Romema was founded on a hill outside the village of Lifta in 1921. The initiator of the project was attorney Yom-Tov Hamon, an expert
Romema
Soliciting a ride in a stranger's road vehicle
September 2016. Deininger, Lukas (18 August 2025). "Här försöker SVT:s reporter lifta från Atlanten till Östersjön". SVT Nyheter [SVT News] (in Swedish). Retrieved
Hitchhiking
Term for the ongoing trauma of the Palestinian people
Lifta, a depopulated Arab village neither destroyed nor repopulated since 1948, as one that embodies both past and present narratives, noting: "Lifta
Ongoing_Nakba
Ramallah: A variety of very distinguishable finely executed patterns. Lifta (near Jerusalem), and Bayt Dajan (near Jaffa) were known as being among
Palestinian traditional costumes
Palestinian_traditional_costumes
Ben-Hur filming site near Lifta, intended to be Jerusalem
Production of Ben-Hur (1959 film)
Production_of_Ben-Hur_(1959_film)
Section of Jerusalem in the West Bank
western Jerusalem neighbourhoods as Qatamon, Talbiya, Baq'a, 'Ayn Karim, Lifta and Malha either fled or were forced out, many of them seeking refuge in
East_Jerusalem
Place in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
was established in a joint venture with the neighboring Arab village of Lifta. As Deir Yassin prospered, houses radiated from the Hara uphill and eastward
Deir_Yassin
Pre-1948 Jewish inhabitants of Palestine
families residing in Beit Hanina (Dar Abu-Zuheir) and the now-depopulated Lifta (Abu Aaukal), situated near Jerusalem, as well as families in Beit Ummar
Palestinian_Jews
1947 UN internationalization proposal
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine Jerusalem Corpus Separatum Lifta Shu'fat JERUSALEM at-Tur al-Eizariya Abu Dis Silwan Sur Baher Umm Tuba Ramat
Corpus_separatum_(Jerusalem)
Palestinian-American activist
deported without serving jail time. Odeh has said that she was born in Lifta in 1948, but that her family left for Ramallah when she was a month old
Rasmea_Odeh
Church constructed 1919–1924 in Jerusalem
construction of the church: the interior utilizes a stone from the quarries at Lifta, north-west of Jerusalem; and the exterior, a rose colored stone from Bethlehem
Church_of_All_Nations
unit. See also Jewish Quarter. The comparatively populous Arab village of Lifta (today within the bounds of Jerusalem) was captured by Israeli troops in
History_of_Jerusalem
63917°E / 31.57056; 34.63917 Bror Hayil, Tlamim, Zohar, Sde David, Heletz Lifta Jerusalem 1 January 1948 2,958 8,743 Atrocity 3 or more Jewish families
List of towns and villages depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war
List_of_towns_and_villages_depopulated_during_the_1947–1949_Palestine_war
Renaming of geographical sites in Palestine
older Hebrew names (e.g. Khirbet Shifat = Yodfat; Khirbet Tibneh = Timnah; Lifta = Nephtoah; Jabal al-Fureidis = Herodis, et al.). At other times, the history
Hebraization of Palestinian place names
Hebraization_of_Palestinian_place_names
Hospital in Amman, Jordan
Amman in Amman, the capital city of Jordan. Dr. Ali Akilah was born in Lifta - Jerusalem in 1910 and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the American
Akilah_Hospital
Palestinian-Jordanian writer and researcher (1938–2020)
2020) was a Palestinian-Jordanian writer and researcher. Najjar was born in Lifta on 12 December 1938. She obtained her bachelor from Cairo University in
Aida_Najjar
al-Jawzi Academia linguistics Jerusalem 1871 Aida Najjar Academia historian Lifta 1936 Ibrahim Tuqan Literature poet Nablus 1905 Dimitri Baramki Archaeology
List_of_Palestinians
Place in Amman, Jordan
preceding two centuries. In the beginning of the 20th century, villagers from Lifta near Jerusalem purchased land in Barazin. In 1932, Mithqal offered the Jewish
Barazin
as in the King James Version. Conder and Kitchener identified Eleph with Lifta. Elon-beth-hanan (sometimes written Elonbethhanan, Elonbeth-hanan, Elon
List_of_minor_biblical_places
Administrative division of British Palestine (1920–1948)
Deir Yassin Ayn Karim Ishwa Islin Ism Allah Jarash al-Jura Kasla al-Lawz Lifta al-Maliha Nitaf al-Qabu Qalunya al-Qastal Ras Abu 'Ammar Sar'a Saris Sataf
Gaza Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
Gaza_Subdistrict,_Mandatory_Palestine
Joshua 18:26 Motza Jerusalem District Israel Nephtoah נֶפְתּוֹחַ Joshua 15:9 Lifta Jerusalem District Israel Netophah נְטֹפָה Ezra 2:22 Umm Tuba East Jerusalem
List of modern names for biblical place names
List_of_modern_names_for_biblical_place_names
European advertising agency
www.horizont.net (in German). Retrieved 2025-08-20. "Serviceplan setzt Lifta-Kampagne fort". www.healthcaremarketing.eu (in German). Retrieved 2025-08-20
Serviceplan_Group
American documentary filmmaker
and co-producer Documentary 2016 Sacred Editor Documentary The Ruins of Lifta Editor Documentary 2015 Colliding Dreams Editor Documentary 2012 Birders:
Nick_August-Perna
Valley – Migratory Routes – Hula Valley Northern District Natural 2004 Lifta (Mey Naftoah) – Traditional Mountain Village Jerusalem District Cultural:
List of World Heritage Sites in Israel
List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Israel
Israeli-Dutch filmmaker
Benny Brunner בני ברונר Benny Brunner in Lifta during filming of Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 Born 1954 (age 71–72) Bârlad, Romania Occupation
Benny_Brunner
1997 Dutch film
Brunner in Lifta during production
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948
Al-Nakba:_The_Palestinian_Catastrophe_1948
Military unit
objective. Further advance was held up by machine gun fire from a hill south of Lifta. The Brigadier came forward to confer with Lt-Col Dear and arranged a brigade
Poplar_and_Stepney_Rifles
Structures were roofed with timber wooden beams covered by reeds and rushes. In Lifta, until the end of the 19th century, traditional housing construction consisted
Architecture_of_Israel
marketplace in Jerusalem. 1939, June 30 2 Arabs were shot and killed in Lifta. 1939, July 3 1 Arab was killed by a bomb at a marketplace in Haifa. 1939
List_of_Irgun_attacks
contact with them. They returned to the city after sacking the village of Lifta. That night there was much shooting from outside the walls. On 26 May, the
Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1834)
Protected areas in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories
Reserve with Crusader-era Montfort Castle Northern District: Upper Galilee Lifta (Mei Nephtoah) Nature Reserve Jerusalem District Mount Arbel Nature Reserve
National parks and nature reserves of Israel
National_parks_and_nature_reserves_of_Israel
Neighborhood of West Jerusalem
established in 1906 on land purchased from the Arab villages of Deir Yassin and Lifta by a society headed by Rabbi Nissim Elyashar, Arieh Leib and Moshe Kopel
Givat_Shaul
Archaeological site in Israel
reserves of Israel Jerusalem District Adullam Avshalom Cave Ein Hemed HaMasrek Lifta Nahal Sorek Har HaTayasim Te'omim Cave Northern District Acre Achziv Islands
Adullam
Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem
Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, a small number of Palestinians from Lifta moved to the area prior to 1967. In late 2010 documents leaked by Al Jazeera
French_Hill_(settlement)
Palestinian-American journalist
States to attend college. His mother is originally from the village of Lifta, now part of Israel, but she became a refugee in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion
Ali_Abunimah
form of the name Ono, a Canaanite town mentioned in 1 Chronicles 8:12. Lifta: Commonly identified as the biblical site of Nephtoah, mentioned in the
Place_names_of_Palestine
Railway line in Israel
850 m Bridge 10 Mevaseret Zion Bridge 975 m (95 m tall) Tunnel 4 Jerusalem—from near Ginot Saharov to Binyanei HaUma Under Lifta Tunnel (NATM) 2.9 km
Tel_Aviv–Jerusalem_railway
Military unit
supported 180th (2/5th London) Brigade's afternoon attack on the heights above Lifta; the hill was carried with great dash at the point of the bayonet. The battery
6th County of London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
6th_County_of_London_Brigade,_Royal_Field_Artillery
2000 novel by David Grossman
and the two form a connection. In his search for her, Assaf is lead to Lifta, where he finds two drug-addicted teenagers that tell him Tamar is looking
Someone_to_Run_With
American poet, writer, psychotherapist, and gerontologist
(Red Hen Press, 2007) A Cleft in the Rock (Dos Madres, 2018) The Stones of Lifta (Dos Madres, 2019) The Marc Kaminsky Papers, The Ohio Library and Information
Marc_Kaminsky
Historical and contemporary emigration of Palestinian Christian communities
0 0 - El Yahudiya 20 0% Depopulated 0 0 - Yazur 20 0% Depopulated 0 0 - Lifta 20 1% Depopulated 0 0 - Na‘ana (Ni‘ana) 20 1% Depopulated 0 0 - Rehovot
Emigration of Christians from Israel and Palestine
Emigration_of_Christians_from_Israel_and_Palestine
Variety of fruit
Nablus, Nazareth, Tiberias, Safed and Alma al-Shaib, in Umm al-Fahm and in Lifta village near Jerusalem. It was only in the middle of the 19th-century that
Balady_citron
Highway in Israel and Palestine
(Kiryat Moshe Interchange) Yitzhak Rabin St. Romema 6.83 4.24 מנהרת ליפתא (Lifta Tunnel) Jaffa Road 6 lanes, 570 metres Givat Shaul 7.49 4.65 מחלף גבעת שאול
Highway_50_(Israel–Palestine)
Palestinian writer and radio broadcaster (1894–1949)
Christian community there, but he studied at the Lutheran Schneller School in Lifta, Jerusalem, where he was baptized/confirmed by the school founder's son
Stephan_Hanna_Stephan
Jordanian military commander (1918–1973)
the German Colony, Talpiot and Ramat Rahel in exchange for Israel having Lifta and Romema, all of which the Israelis had conquered. By the autumn of 1949
Abdullah_Tal
Yemenite rabbi and scholar
beyond the walls of the Old City, on lands purchased from the villagers of Lifta), be it only for a few hours of the day, so that they might receive their
Avraham_Al-Naddaf
Municipality type D in Jerusalem, Palestine
Balad and Shu'fat to the east, An Nabi Samwil to the north, Beit Surik and Lifta to the west. According to Palmer Beit Iksa means "The house of Iksa" According
Beit_Iksa
Grassroots organization for Palestinian and Israeli families
dialogue meetings and together visit the former Palestinian village of Lifta as well as the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Artist Omer Golan stated his
The Parents Circle-Families Forum
The_Parents_Circle-Families_Forum
German Protestant orphanage that operated in Jerusalem from 1860 to 1940
Protestant mission. On 11 October 1855 Schneller bought from the people of Lifta a parcel of land outside their village, approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 mi)
Schneller_Orphanage
Administrative division of British Palestine (1920–1948)
Karim Ishwa Islin Khirbat Ism Allah Jarash al-Jura Kasla Khirbat Al-Lawz Lifta al-Maliha Nitaf al-Qabu Qalunya al-Qastal Ras Abu 'Ammar Romema Sar'a Saris
Jerusalem Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine
Jerusalem_Subdistrict,_Mandatory_Palestine
New Zealand musician and music video director (1951–2021)
Clermont Ferrand Film Festival for Rodney and Juliet Best TV Graphics, 1989 NZ LIFTA Awards for Radio with Pictures Lemon & Paeroa soft drink. (1991) McDonald's
Fane_Flaws
Central district in Jerusalem
Batei Saidoff Even Yisrael Ezrat Yisrael Kirya Ne'emana Knesset Yisrael Lifta Mahane Yehuda Mamilla Mazkeret Moshe Mishkenot Sha'ananim Mughrabi Quarter
Downtown_Triangle_(Jerusalem)
Village in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Deir Yassin Ayn Karim Ishwa Islin Ism Allah Jarash al-Jura Kasla al-Lawz Lifta al-Maliha Nitaf al-Qabu Qalunya al-Qastal Ras Abu 'Ammar Sar'a Saris Sataf
Sataf
Palestinian politician and journalist
She publishes articles in various publications. Rima's father was from Lifta, a village on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. She and her family had
Rima_Nazzal
Population and land survey of Mandatory Palestine
Khirbat Ismallah 20 20 Khirbat el Lauz 450 450 Khirbat el ‘Umur 270 270 Lifta 2,530 20 2,550 Malha (El) 1,930 10 1,940 Mukhmas 540 540 Nabi Musa (En)
Village_Statistics,_1945
American college football season
Mehdi Abdesmad So LB 46 Sean Burke Fr DB 47 Spenser Rositano So LB 48 Nick Lifta Fr LB 49 Steele Divitto Jr DL 55 Kieran Borcich So DL 90 Connor Wujciak
2012 Boston College Eagles football team
2012_Boston_College_Eagles_football_team
Intermittent stream in Galilee, Israel
reserves of Israel Jerusalem District Adullam Avshalom Cave Ein Hemed HaMasrek Lifta Nahal Sorek Har HaTayasim Te'omim Cave Northern District Acre Achziv Islands
Dishon_Stream
Neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel
Leib Katz. Moshe Meltzer Kantrowitz purchased the land from the Arabs of Lifta. The initial plan called for the construction of 100 homes, but in the end
Zikhron_Tuvya
Israeli-Argentine social work researcher
completing his studies at the Institute, he served as the principal of the "Lifta" open high school in Jerusalem, one of the first open democratic schools
Roni_Strier
Village in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
communities and to strengthen the Jewish hold on these sites. Sheikh Badr and Lifta were the first Arab villages to undergo mass evacuation. To create a "general
Sheikh_Badr,_Jerusalem
Estonian children's writer and poet
die Liebe?, BaltArt 2015 Italian A che piano va? Sinnos 2016 Lithuanian Liftas, 700 eilučių 2016 "Kätlin Vainola". Estonian Children's Literature Centre
Kätlin_Vainola
Military unit
supported 180th (2/5th London) Brigade's afternoon attack on the heights above Lifta; the hill was carried with great dash at the point of the bayonet. The division
7th County of London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
7th_County_of_London_Brigade,_Royal_Field_Artillery
Neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel
Yisrael neighborhood the same year. The land was purchased from the Arabs of Lifta. The neighborhood had a typical open court construction, with row houses
Even_Yisrael_(neighborhood)
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2018_World_Monuments_Watch
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Girl/Female
Tamil
Look, Blessed with beauty, Shape, Beauty
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Middle English, Old French brachet, denoting a type of hound. The word was also used as a term of abuse.Captain Richard Brackett (1610–c. 1691) came to Boston, MA, in about 1629, and moved to Braintree, MA, in 1641.
Girl/Female
English American
Field of hay. Usually a surname.
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon English
From Mann's castle.
Boy/Male
English
Good-natured.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Loving or God Gifted
Boy/Male
Indian
Divine
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Brilliant Moon
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Danish, English, French, German, Norse, Norwegian, Scandinavian, Swedish, Swiss
Leader of the Army; Army Ruler; Army; Warrior; To Rule
Girl/Female
Hindu
Pleasure of the earth, Flower
LIFTA
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a.
Such as can be lifted.