This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Rihaniyya was a Palestinian Arab village in the Haifa Subdistrict.
[7] Al-Rihaniyya had an elementary school for boys founded in 1888 that was no longer open during the British Mandate period.
[11] On 5 April 1948, after the Battle of Mishmar HaEmek the Haganah ordered the Golani Brigade to inform the residents four Arab villages including Rihaniya that they should leave for safety reasons.
[2] Surviving villagers told Rosemarie Esber that they decided to leave Al-Rihaniyya on 30 April, as "we did not have guns to defend it".
[13] Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel, with the village's lands taken over by kibbutz Ramat HaShofet and the moshav of Ein HaEmek.