| Ein Mahil | |
| Settlement Type: | Local council (from 1964) |
| Translit Lang1: | Hebrew |
| Translit Lang1 Type1: | ISO 259 |
| Translit Lang1 Info1: | ʕein Máhel |
| Pushpin Map: | Israel jezreel#Israel |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Coordinates: | 32.7231°N 35.3522°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid position |
| Grid Position: | 183/236 PAL |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Israel |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Northern |
| Unit Pref: | dunam |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Name meaning |
| Blank Info Sec1: | "The spring of the barren land."[1] |
Ein Mahil (Arabic: عين ماهل; Hebrew: עֵין מָהִל) is an Arab local council in the Northern District of Israel, located about five kilometers north-east of Nazareth. It was declared a local council in 1964. In it had a population of, the majority of which are Muslims.
In 1596, Ein Mahil appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Tabariyya, part of Safad Sanjak. It had a population of 28 Muslim households. They paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, fruit trees, and goats or beehives; a total of 1,355 akçe.[2] A map by Pierre Jacotin, from 1799 showed the place named Ain el Mahel.[3]
In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village in the Nazareth district.[4] [5]
The French explorer Victor Guérin passed by the village in the 1875, and described it as having 10 poor dwellings, surrounded by gardens of olives, figs and pomegranates.[6] In 1881 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as a "Stone village, situated on very high ground, surrounded by figs and olives and arable land. It contains about 200 Moslems, and has near it a fine group of springs."[7]
A population list from about 1887 showed that ’Ain Mahil had about 195 Muslim inhabitants.[8]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, 'Ain Mahel had a population of 516, all Muslims.[9] The population increased in the 1931 census of Palestine to 628, of whom 1 was Christian and the rest Muslims, in a total of 109 occupied houses.[10]
In the 1945 statistics the population was 1,040 Muslims,[11] with 13,390 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[12] Of this, 1,486 dunams were for plantations and irrigable land, 6,748 for cereals,[13] while 35 dunams were built-up land.[14]
. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 3: Galilee, pt. 1. 1880. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. French.
. Edward Henry Palmer. 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.
. Harold Rhode . 1979 . Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century . . 2017-11-03 . 2020-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200301141739/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century . dead .
