Sha'ab (شعب)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Sha'ab (شعب)

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village and present-day town in the Acre subdistrict, situated in the western Galilee in a valley between the Shaghur hills, with the village surrounded by cultivated slopes and connected historically to neighboring settlements including Majd al-Kurum, Yirka, Sakhnin, and Kafr Yasif. Its agricultural landscape included wheat, barley, fruit trees, olives, and corn, with Ottoman tax records documenting wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats, and bees, while 1945 statistics recorded 6,602 dunums of cereals and 3,248 dunums of plantations and irrigable land.