Malha

Malha المالحة מלחה
Etymology: The salt-pan[1]
Village boundaries of Maliha in the Mandatory Palestine period
Palestine grid	167/129
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Jerusalem
Date of depopulation	21 April 1948, 15 July 1948[2]
Area [3]
• Total	13,449 dunams (13.449 km2 or 5.193 sq mi)
Population  (1948[5])
• Total	1,940[4][3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Influence of nearby town's fall
Secondary cause	Military assault by Yishuv forces

Malha is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, between Pat, Ramat Denya and Kiryat Hayovel in the Valley of Rephaim. Before 1948, Malha was an Arab village known as al-Maliha (Arabic: المالحة).

Excavations in Malha revealed structures from the Bronze Age. In biblical times, it was the site of Manahat, located in the territory of Judah. In the fifth century, it was inhabited by Christian Georgians. During Ottoman times, it was a Muslim town with locals originating from Transjordan and Egypt. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the village's inhabitants fled, and Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern countries settled there, with some of the land already purchased by Sephardic Jews before the war.

Malha is now an upscale neighborhood featuring the Malha Shopping Mall, Teddy Stadium, and the Jerusalem Technology Park.