Khirbat al-Majdal

This article is about the village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. For other villages, see Majdal.

Khirbat al-Majdal was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tulkarm Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on March 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing. It was located 10 km northwest of Tulkarm.

Khirbat al-Majdal خربة المجدل
Village
1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Khirbat al-Majdal (click the buttons)
Khirbat al-Majdal Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°23′39″N 34°56′15″E
Palestine grid	149/201
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Tulkarm

History

Khirbat al-Majdal was located on the Crusader place called Megedallum. The site had a well, around which bedouin gradually settled.^[1]

The village had a shrine for a local sage known by al-Shaykh Abdallah. Today, Sde Yitzhaq is located near the village lands, but on land belonging to Raml Zayta.^[2]