This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Ein al-Asad (Arabic: عين الأسد "the lion's spring", Hebrew: עין אל-אסד) is a Druze village in northern Israel.
Located near Maghar in the Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council.
[1] The community was founded in the mid to late 19th century by Druze from nearby Beit Jann, who were later joined by Druze migrants from Lebanon and Jabal al-Druze in Syria.
[3] In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ein al-Asad had a population of 48, of whom 47 were Druze and one a Christian,[4] increasing in the 1931 census to 81; 80 Druze and one Christian and a total of 18 houses.
[5] In the 1945 statistics, the population of Ein al-Asad together with Beit Jann was 1,640, all classified as "others" (meaning Druze, 120 of which were indicated as being in Ein al-Asad),[6] who owned 43,550 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.