Ein Mahel

Ein Mahil is an Arab local council within the Northern District of Israel, located approximately five kilometers north-east of Nazareth. It become a neighborhood council in 1964. In 2017 it had a populace of 12,842, the general public of which are Muslims. In 1596, Ein Mahil appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being inside the Nahiya of Tabariyya, a part of Safad Sanjak. It had a population of 28 Muslim households. They paid a set tax charge of 20 percentage on agricultural merchandise, which protected wheat, barley, fruit timber, and goats or beehives; a total of 1,355 akce.

A map by way of Pierre Jacotin, from 1799 showed the location named Ain el Mahel. In 1838 it turned into noted as a Muslim village in the Nazareth district. The French explorer Victor Guerin passed by way of the village in the 1875, and described it as having 10 poor dwellings, surrounded by way of gardens of olives, figs and pomegranates. In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a "Stone village, situated on very high floor, surrounded by using figs and olives and arable land.