Al-Nabi Rubin, Acre

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Nabi Rubin (Arabic: النبي روبين, literally "Prophet Rubin" or "Prophet Reuben"), was a Palestinian village located 28 kilometers northeast of Acre.

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Al-Nabi Rubin: This is a small village round the tomb of the Neby, containing about ninety Moslems, it is situated on a prominent top, and surrounded by many olives, a few figs and arable land; there are two cisterns and a birket near.

[8] The village was captured by Israel as a result of the Haganah's offensive, Operation Hiram during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and was mostly destroyed with the exception of its shrine.

Al-Nabi Rubin inhabitants were expelled to Lebanon in two waves, the aged and infirm were the last to depart when the IDF trucked them to the Lebanese border.

[9] A shrine thought to be dedicated to the prophet Rubin is the only original structure that remains on former village's lands.

IDF soldiers during Operation Hiram, as photographed in Sa'sa' on 30 October 1948