Al-Sarafand

al-Sarafand
الصرفند
Sarepta Yudee
Etymology: from a personal name
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al-Sarafand
Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 32°38′48″N 34°56′08″E / 32.64667°N 34.93556°E / 32.64667; 34.93556
Palestine grid144/228
Geopolitical entityMandatory Palestine
SubdistrictHaifa
Date of depopulation16 July 1948
Area
  Total
5,409 dunams (5.409 km2 or 2.088 sq mi)
Population
 (1945)
  Total
290
Cause(s) of depopulationMilitary assault by Yishuv forces
Secondary causeInfluence of nearby town's fall
Current LocalitiesTzrufa

Al-Sarafand (Arabic: الصرفند) was a Palestinian Arab village near the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. In Ottoman tax records, it is shown that the village had a population of 61 inhabitants in 1596. According to a land and population survey by Sami Hadawi, al-Sarafand's population was 290 in 1945, entirely Arab.