Ijlil
Village: Ijlil — إجليل
Location: Coastal plain, north of Jaffa
Population: ~1,010 (1945 census)
Land: 9,451 dunams. Citrus groves. Agricultural land.
Demolished: 1948
Status: Does not exist
WHAT HAPPENED.
Ijlil was a village. It had people. It had land. It had citrus groves and families and a name that appears on Ottoman maps and British Mandate records and the 1945 Palestinian census.
In 1948, the village was depopulated and demolished. The residents fled or were expelled. They expected to return. They did not.
See: The Nakba 1948 →THE BOOK.
Walid Khalidi's All That Remains — the record of every Palestinian village destroyed in 1948 — places Ijlil on page 247. Location, population, land area, what happened to it. The data exists because someone made sure it did.
THE BRAND.
One of the founders of this brand is from Ijlil. The brand exists because Ijlil does not. Not a monument. Not a memorial. A continuation of the thing that doesn't stop just because the village was demolished.
يامّا. Yu. Ma. The first two people. One from Ijlil. One from Cairo.
ELSEWHERE