Wadi Ara (Arabic: وادي عارة) was a Palestinian village located 38.5 km south of the city of Haifa.

At En Esur (Hebrew) or 'Ein Asawir (Arabic), about 1km NW of Wadi Ara, a remarkably large settlement from the Early Chalcolithic period, some 7,000 years ago, has come to light.

[6] Above the Chalcolithic settlement, a large walled Early Bronze Age city of 650,000 m² (160 acres) covered the site, with up to 6,000 inhabitants – another unparalleled finding for the Southern Levant.

[6] Tell el-Asawir, part of the wider En Esur site, contains burial caves dating from the fourth to the second millennium BCE.

[8] Ceramics from the late Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim and Middle ages have been found at Khirbet ez-Zebadneh.

[16] During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the village was successfully defended by Arab Liberation Army volunteers and Iraqi forces patrolling the nearby city of Tulkarm.

South of this building are the remains of a high wall and a monumental gateway which now gives access to the Kibbutz swimming pool.