Zalafa
Place in Haifa, Israel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about an Arab village that forms part of the Israeli local council of Ma'ale Iron. For the depopulated Palestinian village, see Khirbat Zalafa.
Zalafa (Arabic: زلفة, Hebrew: זלפה) is an Arab village in Israel's Haifa District. The village is in the Wadi Ara area of the northern Triangle, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northeast of Umm al-Fahm. Since 1996, it has been under the jurisdiction of the Ma'ale Iron local council whose headquarters is in the village.[4] The village is divided into three neighborhoods: East, West and al-Murtafi'a. In mid-2016, Zalafa's population was 4,639,[1] all of whom are Muslim.[5]