In the 1740s ten Jewish households under the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Soloman Abadi settled in Kafr Yasif and were joined by a number of other Jews , leaving Safad in the early 1760s as a result of the Near East earthquakes of 1759 . According to Jewish travelers , the Jews in Kafr Yasif lived well under the auspices of Arab Zahir al-Umar , the autonomous Ottoman ruler of the Galilee ( 1730 – 1775 ) , whose tolerance had allowed for the initial establishment of the village 's Jewish community
Near East earthquakes of 1759
Near East earthquakes of 1759
Kafr Yasif