This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Kafr Saba (Arabic: كفر سابا) was a Palestinian village famous for its shrine dating to the Mamluk period and for a history stretching back for two millennia.

About 40 meters (44 yd) away, on the west side of the road, is a much smaller shrine named Nabi Serakha.

Capharsaba was an important settlement during the Second Temple period[15][8] and is mentioned for the first time in the writings of Josephus in his account of the attempt of Alexander Jannaeus to halt an invasion from the north led by Antiochus XII Dionysus (Antiquities, book 13, chapter 15).

Kfar Saba appears in the Talmud in connection to grain tithing and the Capharsaba sycamore fig tree.

An inscription embedded on the right side of the sabil referred to the foundation of a fountain for the public by Tankiz, governor of Damascus in 1311–1312.

[20] In 1596, Kafr Saba was part of the Ottoman Empire, nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Sa'b under the administrative banner of Nablus Sanjak.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 8,314 akçe.

[21] In 1730, the Egyptian Sufi traveller al-Luqaimi visited Kafr Saba and saw the shrine for a local religious figure, the Tomb of Benjamin.

[22] In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Kafr Saba in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar.

"[35] Benvenisti frames this transformation, and others similar to it, in the context of, "a wholesale appropriation of the sacred sites of a defeated religious community by members of the victorious one.

"[36] The Jewish town of Kfar Saba, founded in 1903, was situated southwest of the village on the eve of the war.

The Kibbutz of Nir Eliyahu was established in 1950 about 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) northeast of the village site, on lands of nearby Qalqilyah.