Umm al-Fahm

Umm al-Fahm is a metropolis located 20 kilometres northwest of Jenin within the Haifa District of Israel. In 2017 its populace became 54,240, nearly all of whom are Arab residents of Israel. The city is located at the Umm al-Fahm mountain ridge, the best factor of which is Mount Iskander, overlooking Wadi Ara. Umm al-Fahm is the social, cultural and financial middle for residents of the Wadi Ara and Triangle regions. Several archaeological web sites across the city date to the Iron Age II, as well as the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, early Muslim and the Middle Ages. It is one of the great place.

In 1265 C.E., after Baybars received the territory from the Crusaders, the revenues from Umm al-Fahm have been given to the Mamluk na'ib al-saltana of Syria, Jamal al-Din al-Najibi. In 1517 the village changed into incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the relaxation of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared within the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Sara of the Liwa of Lajjun. It had a populace of 24 families, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer time vegetation, olive bushes, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives, and a press for olive oil or grape syrup.