Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	July 24, 1948
Distance from district center	19.5 (km) South of Haifa
Elevation from the sea	50 (meters)
Map location	See location number #17 on the map
Israeli military operation	Operation Shoter (Police)
Israeli attacking brigade	A special force drawn from the Golani, Carmeli, and Alexandroni brigades.
Village defenders	Local Arab militia, Arab Liberation Army volunteers, and some support from the Iraqi Army in Tulkarm.
Israeli acts of terror	In September 1948, UN investigators stated that 130 villagers were unaccounted for.
Refugees' migration route	Villagers were expelled eastward to Jinin.
Exodus Cause	Military assault by Jewish troops
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	The village has been partially destroyed (how did they miss it, a miracle!). The mosque has been allowed to deteriorate, but several houses are still in use by Jewish settlers.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	Ijzim inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 23,619 Jewish 0 Public 23,268 Total 46,905
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Irrigated & Plantation 2,367 Area planted w/ olives 1,340 Planted W/ Cereal 17,791 Built up 91 Cultivable 20,158 Non-Cultivable 26,656
Population before occupation	Year Population 1596 55 19th century 1,000 1922 1,610 1931 2,160 1945 2,970 1948 3,445 Est. Refugees 1998 21,157
Number of houses	Year Number of houses 1931 442 1948 704
Schools	Ijzim had an elementary school for boys, which was founded by the Ottomans in 1888.
Notable people from town	Ijzim was the hometown of al-Shaykh Mas'ud al-Madi, the leader of the Haifa coastal area in the early nineteenth century and governor of Gaza for some time. Also in 1887, Yusuf al-Shafi'i became the judge of the Beirut court.
Religious institutions	Ijzim had two mosques (one is still standing), but the remaining mosque in need of serious renovation guys.
Archeological sites	The village was constructed over the remains of an earlier settlement, and there were also ruins in the nearby Khirbat Kabbara and Khirbat Maqura.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	Kerem Maharal
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Town Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"The village has been partially destroyed. The mosque has been allowed to deteriorate, but several houses are still in use. The meeting house (diwan) of Mas'ud al-Madi, which is a two-storey structure dating to the eighteenth century , has been converted into a museum. The school has been turned into a synagogue and the cafe into a post office."

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