Fara, Safad

During the early Ottoman era in 1596, Fara was part of the nahiyah ("subdistrict") of Jira, part of the Liwa ("district") of Safad. It had a population of 40 households and 11 bachelors; an estimated 281 persons, all Muslim.^[6][7] They paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,832 akçe. Half of the revenues went to a waqf.^[8]

In 1838 Farah was noted as a village in the Safad district,^[9] while in 1881 the SWP described Farah as having "Mud and basalt houses, containing about 100 Moslems. It is situated on a plain, cultivated as arable land. Water from Wady Far'ah and from cisterns and birket."^[10] The villagers cultivated olive and fig trees and vineyards.^[11]

A population list from about 1887 showed Farah to have an estimated 385 Muslim inhabitants.^[12]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, "Fara" had a population of 218, all Muslims except 1 Christian,^[13] increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 229, all Muslims, in a total of 42 houses.^[14]

En las estadísticas de 1944/5 tenía una población de 320 musulmanes, ^{[ 4 ]} con un total de 7229 dunams de tierra. ^{[ 3 ]} De estos, 3738 se usaban para cereales , 173 eran de regadío o se usaban para huertos, ^{[ 15 ]} mientras que 38 dunams se clasificaban como tierra edificada (urbana). ^{[ 16 ]}

En 1992, el emplazamiento del pueblo fue descrito así: «En el lugar se alza un edificio de piedra (probablemente una mezquita), así como varias terrazas de piedra. Sin embargo, en general, el terreno está cubierto de hierba e higueras. A menos de 1 km al norte se encuentra el asentamiento de Yir'on . Una parte del terreno que rodea el pueblo está plantada con árboles frutales, como manzanos, pero el terreno a lo largo de la ladera del valle está desierto y sin cultivar». ^{[ 11 ]}