Hundreds of Palestinian villages were left empty across Israel when their residents became refugees after the 1948 war; their lands and property confiscated. Most of the villages were razed by the new State of Israel; but in dozens of others; communities of Jews were settledmdash;many refugees in their own right. The state embarked on a systematic effort of renaming and remaking the landscape; and the Arab presence was all but erased from official maps and histories. Israelis are familiar with the ruins; terraces; and orchards that mark these sites todaymdash;almost half are located within tourist areas or national parksmdash;but public descriptions rarely acknowledge that Arab communities existed there within living memory or describe how they came to be depopulated. Using official archives; kibbutz publications; and visits to the former village sites; Noga Kadman has reconstructed this history of erasure for all 418 depopulated villages.
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