[7] Describing this settlement according to local tradition, Ayalon and Marom noted, On a summer day sometime in the late 1860s, a group of shabab (youth) from the Jabal Nablus (Samaria) highland left their village of ʿAzzun and descended to the sparsely populated and wooded coastal plain.

They arrived at the long-abandoned site of Tubsur [...] Pitching their tents among the ancient ruins, they set about demarcating ʿAzzun’s new land claim in the Forest of Arsuf (al-ghaba) [...].

[7] According to Ayalon and Marom, "The frontline trenches of the Great War carved open wounds in the plain’s soil, destroying and temporarily depopulating Khirbat ʿAzzun, Kfar Sava and some other nearby villages.

[12] In the 1940s, Khirbat ʿAzzun was home to 300 people, with shrinking land, and poor infrastructure "The village improved its economic base by adopting new agricultural methods and benefiting from a degree of cooperation with Raʿanana.

Toward the end of the period, the village owned a fine mosque, a school, a couple of guest rooms (dawawin), twelve plots of citrus plantation (bayyarat), a mechanized well, and a grocery shop.

Oral recollections of those who were involved in the expulsion shed important light on the events of that fateful day, the likes of which happened in numerous other Palestinian villages.

Instead, however, Raʿanana used the fund’s resources for building Beit ha-Magen, a monumental memorial hall commemorating the moshava’s members who fell fighting the Arabs.

[3] In 1992, the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi wrote: "The village has been completely covered with Israeli citrus orchards, making it difficult to distinguish from the surrounding lands.