'Ara (Hebrew: עָרָה; Arabic: عاره) is a village in the Haifa District in northern Israel, located in the Wadi Ara valley.

[3] Some of the burial caves have been dated to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages and the Roman era.

[5] 'Ara, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Shara of the Liwa of Lajjun.

It had a population of 2 Muslim households and paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, vines, and goats or beehives; a total of 1,800 akçe.

[6] In 1882, PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted "traces of ruins on a prominent mound with a well.