What the records say
- When
- 1660
- Kind
- Pogrom
- Coordinates
- 32.97° N, 35.50° E
- Description
- reported destruction of a Jewish town
1660 destruction of Safed
Destruction of a Jewish community
The 1660 destruction of Safed occurred during the Druze power struggle in Mount Lebanon, at the time of the rule of Ottoman sultan Mehmed IV. The towns of Safed and nearby Tiberias, with substantial Jewish communities, were destroyed in the turmoil, a small Jewish community surviving in Safed, but Tiberias, a Jewish town at the time, losing almost its entire population.
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