Rehaniya (Hebrew: רִיחָנִיָּה, Arabic: الريحانية, Adyghe: Рихьаные [rəjħaːnəja]), also spelled Reihaniyye, is a Circassian town in northern Israel.

[2] The village of Rehaniya was established in 1873, but only in 1878 did Circassian families arrive from the Abzakh tribe in the northern Caucasus, a region where today is located the Adygea and Karachay–Cherkessia in the Russian Federation.

The proposals were strongly supported by the IDF, but the plan was vetoed by the Foreign Ministry who were worried about the possible international response.

In 1953, due to increased tensions between the community and the state, authorities engaged in a security campaign, surrounding the village and conducting house searches.

This caused great consternation among two communities - the first was the Galilee regional council, who saw in the increase in the Muslim population of Kfar Kama ’uncalled for and unwanted new residents in the region’[11] who protested the increase in the population of Muslims in the lower Galilee, the second were the villagers of Kfar Kama themselves, angered by what they saw as a "slight on their honour and about 40 prepared to emigrate to Turkey.

A considerable number of Bedouin tents had also been established around Rihaniyya and according to Ha’aretz, it was ‘beyond any doubt’ that they were used as a base for smuggling activities and were included in the intelligence networks of neighbouring countries.

About 20 per cent of the 70 male residents of Rihaniyya were suspected of giving shelter to infiltrators and smuggling"[13] Rehaniya is one of two predominantly-Circassian villages in Israel.