village east of Nazareth
that gained local council
status in Israel
's North District
in 1961. Its jurisdiction extends over 7,200 dunam
s. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, Daburiyya is home to approximately 8,500 residents. The town's population is homogeneously fallahen. A fallah is an Arab who lives or descended from the village, as opposed to city dwellers or medinniyin.
Daburiyya is located off of Highway 65
at the foot of Mount Tabor
in the Lower Galilee, near the area where the prophetess Deborah
judged.
According to the Information on Equality and Social Justice in Israel (ADVA), in 1999 10.5% of Daburiyya's job-ready population are unemployed and 40.4% of the town's university applicants are rejected.
Daburiyya is associated with the Biblical city of Dabrath, which in Joshua 21:28 and in the Book of Chronicles is allotted to the tribe of Issachar
who gave it to the Levites.
Its Hebrew name was Dav(a)rita or Dveyra.
In the Roman-Byzantine period, it was named Helenopolis in Palestina Secunda.
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