This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Ar'ara (Arabic: عرعرة, Hebrew: עַרְעָרָה; lit.

"Juniper tree")[2] is an Arab town in the Wadi Ara region in northern Israel.

[3] Burial complexes from the Roman period have been excavated at Ar'ara, revealing clay lamps, glass vessels and beads, commonly used in the 1st to 4th century CE.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Musmus belonged to the Turabay Emirate (1517–1683), which encompassed also the Jezreel Valley, Haifa, Jenin, Beit She'an Valley, northern Jabal Nablus, Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, and the northern part of the Sharon plain.

It had a population of 8 Muslim households and paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, which included wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, and goats or beehives; a total of 9,000 akçe.

[9] By the eighteenth century, the village remained in the administrative district of Lajjun, but the revenue of the place was farmed for the Mutasarrıf of Jaffa.

In the late nineteenth century, the site was described as: A village of moderate size on high ground, with a spring to the east, a second to the west and a well to the south.

Maqam Shaykh Khalaf is the only building which was noted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Mandate area, and it is located on a slope by the highest point in the village, set in the middle of extensive graveyards.