Madama believes that the name came out of the word (Jerash) Arab Kanaanic sense water in the vicinity of the village notorious for frequent Alkanaani springs in the Covenant,

located to the south west of the city of Nablus and away from about 7 km, It is located west Buren, at a distance of one kilometre from the sea level rise of 500 m, and a total land area of 3400 dunums.

The physical size of about 600 dunums lands surrounding villages Buren, tell, Asira tribal, up to a local temple main road linking Nablus - Jerusalem length 4 km, The cultivated land in the grain and olive trees and fruit, especially figs and Louz.

The village of Madama located at a distance of 12 km south of the city of Nablus, with a population of approximately (1900) people living on (270) House has an area of the village of Madama (3361) dunums situated in the village two schools, one for males and another for females and the level of education in the village very good as there is in the village health clinics equipped with some medical devices, it does not There is a medical crew, which only work on the campaigns carried out by the Medical Society Medical Relief from time to time which do not meet the therapeutic needs of the people.

The institutions created in the village club, is classified as cultural clubs, social and sports. As for the social status and economic, it others in the region Mtrd since the unemployment rate amounting to approximately 70% (as it was in the past about 90% of strong employment working within the Green Line) and there is no source of income to many families of the village but to rely on external assistance and the interior of the institutions of civil and governmental organizations. For agriculture (the fact that the population farmers and peasants)

we do not exaggerate the income of agricultural our village has reached a point close to zero because of the inability of farmers to the marketing Menjathm result of the closure and the procedures of the occupation of land confiscation construction of bypass roads and the building of settlements and the establishment of checkpoints military Yeh, that impede citizens from access to nearby land and even remote areas, which are in the range of Israeli soldiers.

As for the theme of water, the suffering that we face in obtaining drinking water, especially in the summer and autumn seasons are great suffering too as it does not exist in our village any source water Nazif we can equip from the citizens they need potable water depends citizens are essential to obtain their needs of Water on wells collection which usually suffice only until the end of May, according to the quantity of the winter each year and thereafter begin suffering and will continue until next winter and that a significant number of families of the village did not have water tanks for drinking Apart from the absence of wells collection agriculture where the vast majority of the farmers of the village as to pollute water springs The attacks of settlers repeated and vandalized and broken tubes and dumping of waste inside wells spring, especially hotbeds "appointed inappropriately" near a colony of Yitzhar, leading to the spread of several diseases and epidemics such as hepatitis, Alamibia The spring others located in the center of the village "eye East" unsuitable Las Tahlak human pollution due to the high ratio.

This situation is hardly likely to be overburdened with the weight of citizens because of the increase in the price of water, especially water tanks being transported sometimes behave in ways very difficult Compounding prices. The solution only existing for many poor families in the village is drinking contaminated water, or at best going to spring village Iraq Buren deported from the village of approximately 2.5 metres, behind Street bypass, which encloses the village to fetch four Jalonat of water for animals and stories of parents with occupation soldiers barely untold j-stop access to the spring, shooting, Thousand confiscation or free bottled water and occasionally spilled on the ground after the flight torment may extend four or five hours.

In the village mosque and two schools : -

1-Madama school girls (grades 1-10th grade)

2-School Madama mixed secondary (grade III to the Directive (literary) and the Scientific Section forcing students and the students to go to schools Buren close to the village, where there are no health services or postcard