Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Distribution of population by subdistrict, with percentages of Jews and Palestinians, 1946
According to British sources, the semi-sedentary Bedouin population of the Negev was ca. 100,000 in 1946. As excerpted from Khalidi, Walid. Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876-1948. Washington DC: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1992, p. 239.
Acre Palestinian 96 percent Jewish 4 percent
Safed Palestinian 87 percent Jewish 13 percent
Haifa Palestinian 53 percent Jewish 47 percent
Nazareth Palestinian 84 percent Jewish 16 percent
Tiberias Palestinian 67 percent Jewish 33 percent
Jenin Palestinian 100 percent
Tulkarm Palestinian 83 percent Jewish 17 percent
Nablus Palestinian 100 percent
Jaffa Palestinian 71 percent Jewish 29 percent
Ramallah Palestinian 100 percent
Ramleh Palestinian 78 percent Jewish 22 percent
Jerusalem Palestinian 62 percent Jewish 38 percent
Gaza Palestinian 98 percent Jewish 2 percent
Hebron Palestinian 99 percent Jewish less than 1 percent
Beersheba Palestinian 99 percent Jewish less than 1 percent