SŪBA – JERUSALEM DISTRICT
31°47′6″N / 35°7′32″E
1948: Population 719; Houses 110 (1931; including Deir ‛Amr village)
Occupation date: July 13, 1948
Occupying forces: Harʼel Brigade
Occupying operation: Operation Dani
Post 1948: In October 1948 a group of veterans of the Palmach established Kibbutz Misgav Palmach one kilometer southwest of the former village. While the settlers wished for this name, a compromise was reached with the Governmental Names Committee, which approved the name Palmach Tsova, by which it was from thereon known. In the 1980s Tel Tzūba National Park was established on village land in accordance with a National Master Plan for national parks and nature reserves; it was run by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and its signage provided by the Jewish National Fund (JNF, a nongovernmental Zionist organization founded in 1901 for the purpose of buying land on behalf of world Jewry for the foundation of a Jewish state in Ottoman-controlled Palestine).
Today: A series of partially destroyed houses of the village of Sūba is to be found on a steep hilltop beside a Crusader fortress within the Tel Tzūba National Park. The village spring is a tourist site run by the nearby kibbutz, which cultivates the surrounding fields of the former village.
Official Israeli name: Tsova (the ancient name of the site)