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In the [[1922 census of Palestine]] conducted by the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate authorities]], Kafr Yasif is listed with a population of 870 residents; 665 Christians, 172 Muslims and 33 Druze.<ref name="Census1922">Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Acre, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n38/mode/1up 36]</ref> On 1 December 1925, Kafr Yasif became one of the few Arab villages in the [[Galilee]] to receive local-council status during the [[British Mandate for Palestine|British mandate]] period. Yani Kustandi Yani served as mayor from 1933 to 1948.<ref name="Sadi">Sa'di, Ahmad. "Control and resistance at local-level institutions: A study of Kafr Yassif's local council under the military government", ''Arab Studies Quarterly'', Vol. 23, 2001, pp. 31–47.</ref> The [[1931 census of Palestine]] recorded Kafr Yasif's population as 1,057.<ref name=Census1931>Mills (1932), p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas 103]</ref>
 
InOn April14–17 1938February 1939, during the [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine|Arab revolt in Palestine]], a group of Palestinian Arab rebels planted a mine on the road near Kafr Yasif which blew up a British vehicle, killing nine soldiers (according to the Arabs) or one soldier and wounding two others (according to the British). The [[British Army]] proceeded tosetting startablaze settinghomes in Kafr Yasif ablazeas in retaliationpunishment, butburning werebetween 68 and 72 homes before thenbeing informed by local residents that [[Kuwaykat]]'s inhabitants were responsible for the attack. The British troops fatally shot nine Arabs from the direction of Kuwaykat as they approached the village.<ref name="Swedenberg107-9">Swedenberg (2003), pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=q7RTdcvtO2sC&pg=PA107 107]–09.</ref> Between 14–17 February 1939, the British Army set between 68 and 72 homes ablaze in Kafr Yasif in response to another mine attack on British soldiers driving on a newly constructed security road which resulted in the death of one soldier and the wounding of two others.<ref name="Swedenberg107-9"/> It was later discovered by the British authorities that the attackers were not from Kafr Yasif. In compensation, the town was rebuilt by the British with a school and a city hall which are still in use today.<ref name="FOTW">[https://www.fotw.info/flags/il-lckys.html Kafr Yasif (Israel)] Municipality Flags and Descriptions.</ref><ref name="Hughes">{{cite journal |last= Hughes |first= Matthew |year= 2009 |title= The banality of brutality: British armed forces and the repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–39 |journal= English Historical Review |volume= CXXIV |issue= 507 |pages= 314–354 |doi= 10.1093/ehr/cep002 |url= http://v-scheiner.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7251/4/The%20banality%20of%20brutality.pdf |url-status= bot: unknown |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160221163210/http://v-scheiner.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/7251/4/The%20banality%20of%20brutality.pdf |archive-date= 2016-02-21 }}</ref> According to a British chaplain, "The people at Kafr Yasif were very eager to point out that the troops who destroyed their houses were not English but [[Irish people|Irish]]."<ref name=Hughes/>
 
In the [[Village Statistics, 1945|1945 statistics]], an official land and population survey, Kafr Yasif had a population of 1,400:<ref name=VS45>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Acre/Page-040.jpg 40]</ref> 350 were Muslim, 1,105 [[Palestinian Christians|Christians]], and 40 were listed as "other" (Druze).<ref>[http://domino.un.org/pdfs/AAC25ComTech7Add1.pdf Palestine Government Village Statistics, April 1945] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120609143136/http://domino.un.org/pdfs/AAC25ComTech7Add1.pdf |date= June 9, 2012 }} p. 2.</ref><ref name=DoS1945p4>Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p04.jpg 4]</ref> The village owned 6,763 [[dunam]]s of land,<ref name=VS45/> of which 3,234 were plantations and irrigable land, on 3,310 they grew cereals,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Acre/Page-080.jpg 80]</ref> while 75 dunams were built-up (urban) land.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Acre/Page-130.jpg 130]</ref>
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