Beit Sira

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Beit Sira (Arabic: بيت سيرا) is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 22 kilometers west of Ramallah and is a part of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.

The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,500 akçe.

[7] In 1863 Victor Guérin noted Beit Sira as a considerable village on the summit of a rocky hill.

[11] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small village on a swell in the low hills.

[21] Israel has confiscated 1,499 dunams of land from Beit Sira for the construction of the Israeli settlement of Maccabim, presently part of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut.

[22] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Beit Sira had a population of 2,840 inhabitants in 2006.