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On a serious note, the village does have light and shade in its history - like any place might have. It was apparently named by Saladin, who found the locals very generous. In recent times, there have been communal clashes, of a regretable type, but the villagers do say that this is now a past matter.
Ties between Taybeh and a nearby village were put to the test after a Muslim woman from Deir Jrier was murdered by her family when it was discovered that she was pregnant out of wedlock, and it was alleged that she had a romance with a member of the Khoury family. While the details about what happened beforehand are unclear - some say that the conflict became inflamed when the Khoury family allegedly managed to have the woman's body exhumed without their permission - members of the murdered woman's family took their rage out on Taybeh village, setting fire to 14 houses belonging to the Khoury family. ...