Born in the village of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, on 8 December 1936, Jamal Misyef lived his life between Beit Ummar and the depopulated village of Deir Aban, located in the Jerusalem district, until 1948. He worked in trade and livestock breeding, moving among Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. He died of an incurable illness on 5 December 2011.

The collection of 32 documents contains tax payment receipts for land and livestock in the town of Beit Ummar, located in the Hebron sub-district of the Jerusalem district at the time, dating to the 1920s and 1930s, and some receipts issued by the Beit Ummar Cooperative Society in the early 1960s.
It also contains several identification papers for members of the "Misyef" family, such as birth certificates and death notifications, a marriage deed, passports and identity cards, including Palestinian, Jordanian and Israeli ones, papers from the family's medical file, such as an international certificate of vaccination against cholera and yellow fever for Jamal Misyef, a request for a medical examination for a fitness report, and travel permits, whether during the curfew or for movement between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.