This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Dayr Aban (also spelled Deir Aban; Arabic: دير آبان) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jerusalem Subdistrict, located on the lower slope of a high ridge that formed the western slope of a mountain, to the east of Beit Shemesh.

In pre-Roman and Roman times the settlement was referred to as "Abenezer", and may have been the location of the biblical site Eben-Ezer.

[17] They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olives, and goats or beehives; a total of 9,700 Akçe.

[10] In the 17th century, the inhabitants of Dayr Aban collectively converted to Islam, an unusual event within the Middle East during the Ottoman period.

[9] In 1838, Deir Aban was noted as a Muslim village, located in the el-Arkub District, south west of Jerusalem.

"[8] Baldensperger, writing in 1893, stated that the village's residents had been Greek Orthodox until they converted to Islam at a "very recent date [...] perhaps it was about the beginning of this century".

[22] Yitzhak Ben-Zvi mentioned a local tradition according which elderly Muslim women at Dayr Aban preserved old miniature crosses.

[14] H. Stephan wrote that persecutions brought Christians from Dayr Aban to seek refuge at Beit Jala and Ramallah, where they stayed in touch with family members that continued to live in the village as Muslims.

Stormy battles are continuing in the villages of Sataf, Deiraban, Beit Jimal, Ras Abu ‘Amr, ‘Aqqur, and ‘Artuf .

[4][16][28] Through the second half of 1948, the IDF, under Ben-Gurion’s tutelage, continued to destroy Arab villages, including Dayr Aban on 22 October 1948.

[31][32] The moshav of Mahseya was later established near the site of the old village,[33] on the land of Dayr Aban, as was Tzora, Beit Shemesh and Yish'i.