Mi'ar

Info

District: Akka (Acre)

Population 1948: 890

Occupation date: 18/07/1948

Occupying unit: 7th brigade

Jewish settlements on village/town land before 1948: None

Jewish settlements on village/town land after 1948: Segev, Misgav, Manof

Background:

The village stood on a rocky hill at the eastern tip of the plain of Acre. A secondary road linked it to al-Damun, to the northwest. It was located 17.5 km southeast of Acre.

In the second stage of the Israeli army's Operation Dekel, military units closed in on Mi'ar from recently-occupied areas in Lower Galilee. The village was entered by units of the Sheva' (seventh) Brigade between 15 and 18 July 1948, according to Israeli historian Benny Morris. Morris' account implies that the villagers fled either as a result of artillery salvos or under the influence of the occupation of large parts of Lower Galilee.

The settlement of Segev was founded to the east of Mi'ar in 1953. Ya'ad was established in 1975 to the northeast of the village, and in 1980 Manof was built. All are on village lands. The settlement of Yuvallim, built in 1982 on land that traditionally belonged to nearby Sakhnin, is about 2 km due east of the site.

Some truncated stone walls, simple graves, and fig and olive trees remain on the site, which is covered by cypress trees. The area has been turned into recreational and picnic grounds.

Videos

Tour at Mi'ar village - Social TV Report

Zochrot organized a public tour at the destroyed Palestinian village of Mi'ar

The Return to Mi'ar village in the Galilee - Full tour

This tour is part of `Udna - "Our Return" project

Testimony by Awad Ahmad Hassan Essa

Refugee from Mi`ar village - Aka (Acre) District

Returning to Mi'ar / Mi'ar Group for the Vision of Return
Panel - Return Now! Reports from the Field

From Truth to Redress: Realizing the Return of Palestinian Refugees

International Conference in Tel Aviv, September 29-30 2013

Booklets

Remembering Mi'ar 01/2013

Others

Publications
List of destroyed Palestinian villages on which JNF sites were erected 09/2006
Locality events
Tour of the destroyed Palestinian village Mi'ar in the Galilee
Locality tours
Tour at Mi'ar village - Social TV Report
The Return to - Full tour
A Tour at Mi'ar
Mi'ar tour - Report
Locality activities
Hearing on the building plan in Mi’ar (Ya'ad)