Hurfeish

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Hurfeish
Hebrew	חורפיש
Arabic	حرفيش
Government	Local council (from 1967)
District	North
Population	5,200 (2006)
Jurisdiction	4,229 dunams

Hurfeish (Arabic: حرفيش‎; Hebrew: חורפיש‎) is a Druze local council in the Northern District of Israel. It was declared a local council in 1967. according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) it had in 2006 a total population of 5,200, with a growth rate of 1.9%.

The majority of the residents of Hurfeish are Druze but the village does have a small number of Catholic Christians and a few Muslims. In the vicinity of the village stands the grave of Sabalan the Druze prophet.

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