Statistic/Fact	Value
Israeli occupation date	April 17, 1948
Distance from district center	9 (km) West of al-Ramla
Elevation from the sea	50 (meters)
Map location	See location number #14 on the map
Exodus Cause	Influence of fall of, or exoduce from, neighboring town
Village remains after destruction by Israelis	Wadi Hunayn was mostly destroyed with exception of few of its houses and Mosque (now functions as a synagogue). One of the few surviving houses belongs to Shucri Beik al-Taji al-Farouki, which currently functions as the Weitzman Institute. See the Pictures section for details.
Ethnically cleansing by Israelis	Wadi Hunayn inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed.
Village clans or hamolas	al-Farouki al-Tagi family
Land ownership before occupation	Ethnic Group Land Ownership (Dunums) Arab 1,998 Jewish 3,211 Public 192 Total 5,401
Land usage in 1945	Land Usage Type Arab (Dunum) Jewish (Dunum) Area planted w/ citrus 1,827 2,089 Irrigated & Plantation 19 81 Planted W/ Cereal 134 582 Cultivable 1,980 2,752
Population before occupation	Year Population 1922 195 1931 280 1945 1,620 (1,760 Jewish) 1948 1,879 Est. Refugees 1998 11,540
Number of houses	Year Number of houses 1931 55 1948 369
Schools	The village students, numbering 65 in 1945, used to share a school at the nearby village of Sarafand al-Kharab.
Inhabitants place of origin	The Qada'a tribe settled the village in the early Islamic period and named the village after their native home, Wadi Hunayn, in Hadramawt (Yemen).
Religious institutions	One mosque which currently functions as a Jewish synagogue.
Exculsive jewish colonies on town's lands	Nes Tziyyona
Related Maps	خرائط تفصيلية للمحافظة View from satellite Help us map this town at WikiMapia
More Information	Language External Links Arabic PalGates Hebrew Nakba in Hebrew   Nakba-Online

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Town Today

According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
"The mosque has been converted into a synagogue, Gulat Yisra' el .About ten houses survive. One of them, which belonged to Shaykh Sulayman al-Faruqi, is now inhabited by Jewish families. It is a two-story house that looks like an apartment building and is divided into five units, each with a small front porch. The gable-roofed, elaborate house of ibn Hamid has been converted into a mental hospital. The palatial house of Abu 'Umar Effendi is utilized for unspecified purposes by the Israel Defense Force."