Bu'eine Nujeidat
village in Israel
Bu'eine Nujeidat (Hebrew: בועיינה-נוג'ידאת; Arabic: بعينة-نجيدات) is an Arab local council in the Northern District of Israel. Made up of two villages, Bu'eine and Nujeidat, they merged in 1987 and were recognized as one local council in 1996. In 2024 its population was 10,630; 99,9% was Muslim and 0.1% was Christian.
History
Bu'eine is a village located on an ancient site. A small jug from the Iron Age, and potsherds from the Roman and Byzantine periods have been found here. A possible Roman or Byzantine grave is also located here.
Potsherds from the early Islamic and Mamluk period have also been found.
Ottoman Empire
In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as al-Bu'ayna, located in the Nahiya of Tabariyya, part of Safad Sanjak. The population was 38 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, fruit trees and cotton, in addition to occasional revenues, and goats and beehives; a total of 2420 akçe.
“Bu'eine Nujeidat” enters the record as village in Israel. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bu'eine, Nujeidat and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2655774. Authority coordinates are 32.806, 35.365. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 1996, 2024 and 1517.
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