npub1mmfwxp0jkw6un7hf75k0p8kpemm4smau2c4m8ea2w7r7v52lhjusx4eknq (npub1mmf…eknq) Looking at the map, Al Bassa is at the very north end of what is now Israel (close to the Lebanon border) and was then Mandatory Palestine.
Which makes me wonder what the government’s policy is with respect to recording the birthplace of people from other countries that have changed. Such as Yugoslavia, USSR, Burma, Czechoslovakia, and even the Dominion of Newfoundland.