Talfit, Jenin
Talfit is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank, located southeast of Jenin. It had 238 residents in 2007 and 439 in 2017.
The village sits on an isolated hill (tell) in the Zababdeh Valley, about 390 meters above sea level. Nearby towns are Kufeir to the south, Zababdeh to the southwest, Qabatiya to the west, Umm at-Tut to the north, Jalqamus and al-Mughayyir to the northeast, and Raba to the southeast. The main water source is Ein Ginai, about 6 kilometers to the west, and there are 35 cisterns in the village.
In 1980, the built-up area covered 15 dunams. The northern and western parts contain ruins dating from Byzantine and Early Islamic times (5th–8th centuries), and some older building materials are used in houses. The village does not appear in 16th-century records and was likely not inhabited before the 18th century. In 1838, during Ottoman rule, Telfit was noted as a Muslim village in the Haritheh area, north of Nablus. The Palestine Exploration Fund’s Survey of Western Palestine in 1882 described it as having modern masonry.
Population history shows: in 1922, 43 residents (24 Muslims and 19 Christians, all Christians Orthodox); in 1931, 120 residents, all Muslims, in 26 houses; in 1945, 170 Muslims with 6,627 dunams of land. Of this land, 194 dunams were plantations and irrigable, 2,726 were cereals, and 3,707 dunams were non-cultivable.
After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Talfit came under Jordanian rule. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, it has been under Israeli occupation. Most residents are descendants of refugees from Arabia and Turkmen from Central Asia and work as land tenants.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 02:56 (CET).