Majd al-Kurum (مجد الكروم)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village in the Shaghur valley of the western Galilee, situated approximately 16 km east of Acre amid rocky hills, valleys, and terraced agricultural land. Agriculture was central to village life, with wheat, barley, lentils, chickpeas, sesame, olives, dates, fruits, and vegetables cultivated across the valley and hillsides; in 1945, 5,959 dunums were devoted to cereals and 2,330 dunums to irrigated and plantation land, while olive groves occupied a significant part of the agricultural landscape.