al-Asad. On 6 January 1949, 62 people from villages depopulated during the war were rounded up and expelled by the Israeli authorities. A number of Deir al-Asad's inhabitants became refugees in Lebanon and some 2,500 members of the village's Asadi clan resided in the Ain al-Hilweh camp in 1982. Before 1962 Deir al-Asad was self-sufficient in food. The village produced enough meat, fruit, wheat and vegetables for its inhabitants and sold the surplus in Acre or Nazareth. In 1962 its land in the Majd al-Kurum valley was expropriated for the Karmiel town project, stripping the village of its most fertile acres and irreparably harming the local economy in the process. Only the hill land to the north, consisting mainly of olive groves, remained. Today only 10% of the labour force can work on the land, over 80% commute daily to the factories of Haifa or work as labourers on Jewish farms. The two main clans of Deir al-Asad are Asadi and Dabbah. In 1957 the Asadi clan numbered some 800 persons and by 1984, they were about 2,400, accounting for roughly half of the population. In 2000 the two clans each numbered about 3,000 members in the town. Members of the Asadi clan continued to administer and receive the proceeds of the waqf of Shaykh al-Asad at least through the 1980s. In 2003, the municipality of Deir al-Asad merged with Majd al-Krum and Bi'ina to form the city of Shaghur. However, it was reinstated in 2008 after Shaghur was dissolved. In it had a population of . Historic buildings Crusader abbey and church remains The large remains of a Crusader church and abbey was already noted by Guérin and the "Survey of Western Palestine". Guérin noted after his 1875 visit that: "Constructed of small stones very regularly cut, this church had three naves and three apses. Its windows were narrow, and fashioned like actual loopholes, and several details of its architecture show a knowledge of art. Unfortunately, the Druses have half demolished it, and what they have spared has been converted into a stable." Denys Pringle named it "The abbey Church of St. George," and dated it do the 12th century. Mosque and tomb of Shaykh al-Asad al-Safadi The mosque and tomb of Shaykh al-Asad al-Safadi is a two-domed structure, situated about south of the Crusader abbey and church remains. The smaller chamber, to the north, holds the tomb of