A living hub for the people of Palestine — those who shaped it, and those who stood with it.

Suggest a profile

Faces of Lifta

1 person on Faces of Palestine was born here.

A village at the western entrance to Jerusalem, built in stone on a hillside above a spring.

Its people were forced out in 1948. Many of its stone houses still stand, empty.

The stone houses of Lifta
1face
The stone houses of LiftaPhoto: Ruby1619 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lifta

Born in Lifta

1 face

Lifta, in Jerusalem

Akka · 17 facesSafad · 3 facesTiberias · 3 facesNazareth · 19 facesBeisan · 1 faceHaifa · 15 facesJenin · 9 facesTulkarm · 19 facesNablus · 25 facesJaffa · 12 facesRamle · 7 facesRamallah · 29 facesJerusalem · 71 facesHebron · 9 facesGaza · 52 facesBeersheba · 1 faceJerusalemLiftaAkkaSafadTiberiasNazarethBeisanHaifaJeninTulkarmNablusJaffaRamleRamallahJerusalemBethlehemHebronGazaBeersheba

2 towns and villages · 71 faces

Subdistrict borders (1945) by Carlos HaGadol, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Elsewhere in Jerusalem

Know more about Lifta, or spotted something wrong? Tell us. Places are matched from each profile’s birthplace.