The national eligibility rate in 2008-2009 was 44.4 percent of all 17-year-olds. Īccording to data released by the Israeli Ministry of Education based on a 2008 census of high school matriculation scores, Fureidis had a 75.85% eligibility rate, greatly exceeding the accomplishments of most Jewish towns. Īs of the census of 2008, Fureidis had 10,800 residents, of whom 99.6% were Muslim Arabs. Of this, 365 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,717 for cereals, while 6 dunams were built-up (urban) areas. In the 1945 statistics the population of Fureidis consisted of 780 Muslims and the land area was 4,450 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Feridis had a population of 335 all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 454 still all Muslims, in a total of 98 houses. Fureidis had about 300 inhabitants, all Muslim. Ī population list from about 1887 showed that Kh. In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the place as a village of adobe and stone at the foot of the hill, with a well to the south. He estimated it had one hundred and forty people, mostly shepherds and woodcutters, some who also cultivated the land. In 1870, the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village. Ottoman era ĭuring the late Ottoman period, in 1859, the English consul Rogers estimated the population to be 200, who cultivated 18 feddans of land. Īt the northern edge of Fureidis, pottery remains from the 13th -14th century, a coin dating to 1388–1399 CE, and building remains dated to the Mamluk period have been excavated. In the 19th century, three rock-hewn tombs were examined at Fureidis, each with several kokhim. Pottery and remains from an aqueduct dating to the Roman and Byzantine periods have also been found. The artifacts in the cave attest to the presence of a settlement from the pre- Ghassulian period. It appears to have been used as a dwelling and a burial cave. History Ī cave above the old part of Fureidis on the western slope of the Carmel was found to contain fragments of pottery from the Chalcolithic period, including large bowls, jars, ossuary fragments and a pale pink limestone pendant. The name is believed to come from the Arabic ( firdawis), meaning little Garden of Eden, borrowed from the Persian word for paradise. It received local council status in 1952. Fureidis (also Freidis Arabic: فريديس, Hebrew: פֻרֵידִיס) is an Arab town in the Haifa District of Israel.
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