1838 Druze attack on Safed
1838 CE.
Shown on the map at 32.966°, 35.500°.
The 1838 Druze attack on Safed began on July 5, 1838, during the Druze revolt against the rule of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt. Tensions had mounted as the Druze captured an Egyptian garrison outside of Safed. The local Safed militia of several hundred was heavily outnumbered by the Druze rebels, and the city was gripped in despair as the militia eventually abandoned the city and the Druze rebels entered the city on July 5. The Druze rebels and a Muslim mob descended on the Jewish quarter of Safed and spent three days attacking Jews, plundering their homes and desecrating their synagogues, in scenes reminiscent of the looting and pillaging of the Jews in the city that took place four years earlier as part of the Peasants' revolt in Palestine. Some Jews ended up leaving the town, moving south to Jerusalem and Acre. The legacy of the riots and the earthquake led the center of Jewish life to shift from Safed to Jerusalem in the subsequent decade.
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