Lifta (Clepsta)

Also known as Clepsta, Nephtho, Mei Neftoah, Mey Naftoah, ליפתא

Lifta — the Clepsta of the Crusaders, and the Nephtho of Roman and Byzantine writers — clings to the steep northwestern edge of Jerusalem above a perennial spring, on the old descent toward the coastal plain. At the centre of the village stand the remains of a Crusader-period courtyard building, recorded by Denys Pringle in his gazetteer of the kingdom's secular buildings (p. 66); the place is traditionally identified with the biblical spring of Nephtoah (Mei Neftoah). Lifta's far more conspicuous ruins are the domed stone houses of the Ottoman-era Arab village, depopulated in 1948 and never resettled — which, with the spring, the pool, and the terraced hillside, have made it one of the best-preserved historic villages around Jerusalem and a candidate for heritage protection.

Coordinates: 31.7944°, 35.1967°

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