Village memory · Palestine

Kafr Lam

كفر لام

Haifa districtDepopulated 1948

Kafr Lam was a small grain-farming village on the coast south of Haifa, crowded inside the walls of an early Islamic ribat that the Crusaders called Cafarlet. Cleared of its people by July 1948, it escaped demolition thanks to its ruins; the fortress and several houses still stand within the moshav of HaBonim.

• 340 residents before 1948