This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Arab al-Safa (Arabic: عرب الصفا), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan .
The village was destroyed on May 20, 1948, by the Israeli Golani Brigade under Operation Gideon.
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Saffa had a population of 255 Muslims,[4] increasing in the 1931 census to 540; 4 Christians and the rest Muslims, in 108 houses.
[2] The land ownership in the village (in dunams) was as follows:[1][2][6] By 1945, the Arab population were occupied mainly in cereal farming.
The village became depopulated on 20 May 1948, a week after the fall of Baysan[3][6] Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel, with the village's land left undeveloped; the closest villages are the kibbutzim of Tirat Zvi (established 1937) to the south-west and Sde Eliyahu (established 1939) to the west.