The biblical town of Ono (1 Chronicles 8:12; Nehemiah 6:2) has been identified by most scholars with the Palestinian village, Kafr 'Ana, whereon is now built Or Yehuda,[1][2] or, more specifically, with the nearby ruin of Kafr Juna, as Kafr 'Ana actually represents a Byzantine-period expansion of a nearby and much older site –– Kafr Juna, believed to be the ancient Ono.

[3] The territory of Benjamin was known to stretch from a place around Jerusalem to the plains on the west.

[4][5][6] According to the Mishnah, the town of Ono was encompassed by a wall before the Israelite conquest of Canaan under Joshua.

[7] Not succeeding in their attempts to deter Nehemiah from rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Sanballat and Tobiah resorted to stratagem, and pretending to wish a conference with him, they invited him to meet them at Ono.

In 2009, two separate archaeological excavations were conducted in Ono, one by Nissim Golding-Meir on behalf of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem,[8] and the other by Jenny Marcus on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).