Lifta was a Palestinian Arab village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The village was depopulated during the early part of the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine.
Deserted homes on the hillside
Lifta in relation to Jerusalem in the 1870s
Lifta spring
Lifta 1945
According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the patriarch Jacob and his wife Rachel. In the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as Binyamīm.
The Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughter of Shiloh by John Everett Millais, 1847.
A Samaritan mural on Mount Gerizim representing the Tribe of Benjamin, showing the wolf symbol. The word "Benjamin" or "Benyamim" in Samaritan Hebrew, appears in the Samaritan script.