This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Mujaydil (Arabic: المْجيدل (also: al-Mujeidil[5]) was an Arab-Palestinian village located 6 km southwest of Nazareth.

[6] In the 1596 tax records, Al-Mujaydil was part of the Ottoman Empire, nahiyah (subdistrict) of Tabariyya under the Sanjak Safad, with a population of 4 Muslim families.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat and barley, fruit trees, as well as on goats and beehives; a total of 3,295 akçe.

[11] In 1882, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the brother of the Russian Tsar, visited the village, and donated money for the construction of a Russian Orthodox Church there in the hope that local Christians would be converted to the Orthodox faith.

It housed on its first floor a trilingual school for boys and girls, (teaching was in Arabic, Italian and French).

[19] Al-Mujaydil was occupied and captured by the Haganah's Golani Brigade during second half of Operation Dekel on 15 July 1948.

In August 1948, a Jezreel Battalion Golani patrol encountered "groups of Arab women working fields" near Al-Mujaydil, and they reported that: "I [squad OC Shalom Lipman] ordered the machine-gun to fire three bursts over their heads, to drive them off.

The company commander's commented: "Arab women repeatedly attempt to return to Mujeidil, and they are usually accompanied by men.

I gave firm orders to stymie every attempt [lehasel kol nisayon] to return to the village of Mujeidil.

Yifat, established in 1926 on what were traditionally village land, is 2 km to the west of the site of Al-Mujaydil.

[22] The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, described the remains of the village in 1992: "Most of the site is covered with a pine forest that serves as an Israeli park.