al-Tira (الطيرة)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

al-Tira (الطيرة)

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village in the Baysan subdistrict, situated on the side of a gently sloping hill overlooking the steep slopes of Wadi al-Bira to the north and northeast and flatter land to the west and southwest, with a secondary road connecting it to the highway between Samakh and Baysan. Agriculture was the principal livelihood, with cereals, olives, and orchard crops cultivated across its lands; in 1944/45, 4,326 dunums were devoted to cereals and 56 dunums to irrigated or orchard land.