Kafr Lam
Kafr Lam was a Palestinian Arab village located 26 kilometres south of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast. The name of the village was shared with that of an Islamic fort constructed there early in the period of Arab Caliphate rule in Palestine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Abandoned locality
- Description: village in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
- Also known as: “Kafr Lām”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cafarlet and Tel Dor.
Cafarlet
Ruins
Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type. Today it is located inside Moshav HaBonim, Israel, on lands of the now abandoned Arab village of Kafr Lam.
Tel Dor
Archaeological site
Tel Dor or Tell el-Burj, also Khirbet el-Burj in Arabic, is an archaeological site located on the Israeli coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea next to modern moshav Dor, about 30 kilometers south of Haifa, and 2.5 kilometers west of Hadera. Tel Dor is situated 2½ km southwest of Kafr Lam.
Al-Tantura
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tantura was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Near the village lie the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor. Al-Tantura is situated 3 km southwest of Kafr Lam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include HaBonim and Ein Ayala.
HaBonim
Village
Photo: RoyTek, Public domain.
HaBonim is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located 5 km south of Atlit and 3 km north of Kibbutz Nahsholim, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 409.
Ein Ayala
Village
Photo: Oyoyoy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ein Ayala is a semi-cooperative moshav in northern Israel. Located at the foot of Mount Carmel around 20 km south of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,219.
Tzrufa
Village
Tzrufa is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Atlit, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 1,244.
Kafr Lam
- Categories: district, depopulated Palestinian village, human settlement, village, and former settlement
- Location: Haifa District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kafr Lam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كفر لام، حيفا”
- Arabic: “كفر لام”
- Hebrew: “כפר לאם”
- Indonesian: “Kafr Lam”
- Urdu: “کفر لام”
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Explore places such as Nahsholim and Dor.
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