In the 1929 Palestine riots Arab rioters from Jerusalem attacked Kfar Uria , with some local help , robbed and burned down the village . The inhabitants of the adjacent Arab villages for the most part were on good terms with the village 's residents and many treated the moshav 's association director , Baruch Yakimovsky , as their mukhtar ( village chief ) . He was on amicable terms with mukhtars in surrounding villages . The farmers of the area , both Jews and Arabs , cooperated and defended each other against raiding nomadic Bedouin . Six Jewish families who had stayed behind were later smuggled out by the mukhtar of Beit Far via one of the ancient natural tunnels that crisscrosses the area . Yakimovsky managed , with the cooperation of some local mukhtars to work Kfar Uria 's land for a few more years . In 1944 , Jewish stonecutters from Kurdistan rebuilt the village on the ruins of the original site , around 1.5 km north-west Khirbat Ism Allah , but not on village land
1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
Kfar Uria