This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Danna (Arabic: دنه), was a Palestinian village 13 kilometres north of Baysan that was captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and the villagers were expelled.
[4] A basalt lintel decorated with a menorah bas-relief, dated to the 5th-6th century[5] and discovered at Kafr Danna, is possibly the only remaining element of a Byzantine synagogue once standing there.
[8][9] In 1596, Danna was part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Shafa under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun with a population of 5 Muslim families, (estimated 28 people).
It paid a fixed tax rate of 25% to the Ottoman government on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, and other types of produce, such as goats and beehives; a total of 3,500 akçe.
[10] Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, a Swiss traveler to Palestine who passed through the area around 1817, mentioned the village without providing a description.