Ein al-Asad | |
Hebname: | עין אל אסד |
Arname: | عين الأسد |
Foundation: | 1899 |
Founded By: | Beit Jann residents |
District: | north |
Council: | Merom HaGalil |
Pushpin Map: | Israel northwest#Israel |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Coordinates: | 32.9411°N 35.3964°W |
Ein al-Asad (Arabic: عين الأسد "the lion's spring", Hebrew: עין אל-אסד) is a Druze village in northern Israel. Located near Maghar in the Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. As of it had a population of .
The community was founded in the mid to late 19th century by Druze from nearby Beit Jann, who were later joined by Druze migrants from Lebanon and Jabal al-Druze in Syria.[1] It was named after an eponymous wellspring outside the village.[2]
In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ein al-Asad had a population of 48, of whom 47 were Druze and one a Christian,[3] increasing in the 1931 census to 81; 80 Druze and one Christian and a total of 18 houses.[4] In the 1945 statistics, the population of Ein al-Asad together with Beit Jann was 1,640, all classified as "others" (meaning Druze, 120 of which were indicated as being in Ein al-Asad),[5] who owned 43,550 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[6] 2,530 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, while 7,406 dunams were used for cereals[7] and 67 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[8]