Salamah () was a Palestinian Arab village, located five kilometers east of Jaffa, that was depopulated in the lead-up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The town was named for Salama Abu Hashim, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His tomb, two village schools, and ten houses from among the over 800 houses that had made up the village, are all that remain of the structures of the former village today. The historic road from Jaffa to the village is now a street on the border of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, still commonly called "Salameh road". History Ottoman era In 1596, under Ottoman rule, Salamah was a village in the nahiya of Ramla (liwa of Gaza), with a population of 17 Muslim households, an estimated 94 persons. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives; a total of 1,000 Akçe. An Ottoman village list of about 1870 showed that Salama had 73 houses and a population of 216, though the population count included only men. In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as being built of adobe brick, with a few gardens and wells. British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Salameh had a population of 1,187, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 3,691 inhabitants, still all Muslims, in 800 houses. An elementary school for boys was opened in 1920, and by 1941 it had 504 boys enrolled. In 1936 an elementary school for girls was opened, which had 121 girls enrolled by 1941. In the 1945 statistics the population had increased to 6,730, of whom 60 were Christians and 6,670 Muslims. The total land area was 6,782 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. 3,248 dunams were allocated for citrus and bananas, 684 were for plantations and irrigable land, 2,406 for cereals, while 114 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas. 1948 War On 4 December 1947 a band of 120–150 gunmen from Salame attacked nearby kibbutz Ef'al. The residents, together with Palmah reinforcements, beat them off. On 8 December 1947 Arabs attacked the Tel Aviv neighbourhood Hatiqwa. Some of the Jewish residents were killed. Most of the attackers were Salame residents. In January and February 1948 Palmah raiders destroyed houses in Yazur