Editing Haifa (section)

===Haifa al-Jadida (New Haifa) and modern Haifa===
In 1764–1765 [[Zahir al-Umar]] moved the village to a new site {{convert|1+1/2|mi|km|round=0.5|order=flip|abbr=off}} to the east, which he also fortified.<ref name=Seikalyp15>{{cite book |page=15 |title=Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society 1918–1939 |first=May |last=Seikaly |edition=Illustrated, reprint |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-86064-556-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XO4ECBQfh2oC&pg=PA65 |access-date=2 July 2011 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803011437/https://books.google.com/books?id=XO4ECBQfh2oC&pg=PA65 |url-status=live}}</ref> The new village, the nucleus of modern Haifa, was first called {{Transliteration|apc|al-imara al-jadida}} (Arabic: "the new construction") by some, but others residing there called it {{Transliteration|apc|Haifa al-Jadida}} ("New Haifa") at first, and then simply ''Haifa''.<ref name=Bosworth>{{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Clifford Edmund |pages=149–151 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UB4uSVt3ulUC&pg=PA149 |title=Historic cities of the Islamic world |edition=Illustrated |publisher=BRILL |year=2007 |isbn=978-90-04-15388-2 |access-date=2 July 2011 |archive-date=8 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408132617/https://books.google.com/books?id=UB4uSVt3ulUC&pg=PA149 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In the early 20th century, Haifa al 'Atiqa was repopulated with many [[Arab Christian]]s in an overall neighborhood in which many [[Mizrahi Jews|Middle Eastern Jews]] were established inhabitants, as Haifa expanded outward from its new location.{{sfn|Seikaly|2002|p=65}}