This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Na'ani, also called Al-Ni'ana, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine.
[8][9] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the place as: "A small mud village on low ground, identified with Naamah (near Makkedah), by Captain Warren.
[13] A British anthropologist, writing in 1932, reported that there was a group of "Sidr" trees (see Ziziphus spina-christi and Sidrat al-Muntaha) south of the village believed to be protected by spirits.
[14] In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 1,470; 1,450 Muslims and 20 Christians[3] with a total of 9,768 dunums of land.
"[6] The village was at the site of a historic Roman site of Tel Na'na' (Hebrew: תל נענע), where excavations have resulted in discovery of tombs and items dating to the Roman, Byzantine, and early Arab era.