the evacuation from Yosef Weitz. The Haganah Intelligence Report attributes the flight to "fear and the influence of attacks in the area," which Morris notes is "not really the same thing." Subsequent to the depopulation of the village, Weitz and his colleagues from the Jewish National Fund in the North, "decided to raze the tenants' houses, to destroy their crops, and to pay the evictees compensation." Qira wa Qamun's inhabitants joined the first wave of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, displaced prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Today, the villagers and their descendants remain refugees. Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel; Yokneam Illit was later established on the former lands of Qira. See also Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem References Bibliography Levinger, Perez (1987). Land purchase in Yokenam area affair (פרשת רכישת הקרקעות באזור יקנעם) (Catedra, p. 153 - 170) External links Welcome to Qira Qira (Qira and Qamun), Zochrot Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons Qira from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War Palestine-related articles needing attention District of Haifa