[5] The site is identified with Kefar Menori (Hebrew: כפר מנורי), a village mentioned in the Tosefta.

[6] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted at el Menarah: "Ruined Arab houses, all basalt; no cisterns".

[9] In the 1944/1945 statistics it had total population of 490 Muslims,[2] and together with the people of Nasir ad-Din they had 4,185 dunams of land.

[4] There are no Israeli settlement on village land, the closest is Poria Illit, located to the south of the site.

At its northern edge are walls of dark stone, with doum palm trees growing in their midst.