This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Kafr Misr (Arabic: كفر مصر, Hebrew: כַּפְר מִצְר, lit.

[3] Karmon writes in 1960, referring to Conder and Kitchener's Memoirs, that the name "Mebhel" registered by Jacotin in 1799 was replaced by "Kefr Misr" ('Egypt[ian] village') after the site being settled by Egyptians during the decade under the rule of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1831–1841).

[2] During a salvage excavation in September 2006, pottery fragments dating to the Late Roman or Byzantine period were discovered in a layer of plaster for what was interpreted to have served as a small pool designed to collect overflow waters from a nearby spring.

[3] A synagogue thought to have been constructed around the same time, in the 3rd century, was excavated between 1948 and 1987, and provides evidence for the existence of a Jewish community inhabiting Kafr Misr then.

[12] Renovated in the 4th century, following damage sustained from an earthquake, a Torah niche was added, which was later replaced by an apse, suggesting the edifice was converted into a church.

[11][13] A trial excavation in 2002, carried out some 100 meters (330 ft) to the east of the synagogue structure, revealed a number of ancient walls, constructed of small and medium size rocks and plaster, that were founded on the basalt bedrock.

[21] In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a small mud village, with a spring on the north, standing in plough-land, and inhabited by Egyptians, whence its name.

[28] Prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, Israel Galili wrote to Yosef Weitz recommending that new settlements be established at the site of a number of Arab villages, including Kafr Misr, 'as soon as possible'.

[29][30] During the war, on May 20, the Arab Higher Committee (AHC) ordered the evacuation of Kafr Misr and other villages in the vicinity of Mount Gilboa (al-Dahi, Nein, al-Tira, Taiyiba, and Na'ura).

According to the commander, eight rifles were handed over with a promise to deliver more the next day and the men requested, "permission to continue the harvest and to [be able to] move freely to Nazareth.