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Grid position
  
186/231 PAL

Founded
  
1992

District
  
Northern

Local time
  
Saturday 2:34 PM

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Name meaning
  
Khirbet Umm el Ghanem = The ruin with the sheep

Weather
  
18°C, Wind SW at 24 km/h, 47% Humidity

Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam (Arabic: الشبلي - أم الغنم‎‎, Hebrew: שִׁבְּלִי-אֻם אל-עַ'נַם‎) is an Arab town at the foot of Mount Tabor in Israel's Northern District. In 2015 it had a population of 5,694.

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Map of Shibli-Umm al-Ghanam, Israel

History

Archaeological excavations have revealed flint from the Mousterian culture, several knapped using the Levallois technique.

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Um al-Ganam, located in the Nahiya of Tabariyya of the Liwa of Safad. The population was 8 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax- rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley and summer crops, in addition to occasional revenues, and goats and beehives; a total of 1910 Akçe.

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here "several ancient cisterns, still unbroken, and ancient caves cut in rock, which now serve as refuge for shepherds." In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine found at Kh. Umm el Ghanem: "Heaps of stones, a few of which are hewn, all of small size, one small cave and one cistern."

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm al Ghanam had a population of 52, all Muslims. In the 1931 census the population of Umm al-Ghanam was counted with that of Reineh, together they had 1015 inhabitants in a total of 243 houses.

In 1945 the population of Umm al-Ghanam was counted with that of Mount Tabor, and their the total land area was 8,409 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 232 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 6,215 for cereals, while a total of 1,962 dunams were classified as non-cultivable land.

State of Israel

The town was formed in 1992 as a result of a municipal merger of the villages of Shibli and Umm al-Ghanam.

Shibli High School is attended by 270 Arab students, Special educational programs introduced at the school have boosted the Bagrut matriculation pass rate and percentage of graduates attending university.

Hassan Saida of Shibli–Umm Al-Ghanam owns a collection of small cast lead books featuring what is believed to be the first-ever portrait of Jesus. The books are thought to have been created by followers of Jesus in the first decades after his crucifixion. The books, containing cryptic messages in Hebrew and ancient Greek, have been in Saida's family since they were found by his great-grandfather.

References

Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam Wikipedia