page_title: Imwas
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Imwas / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Latrun 1942 1:20,000
context_page_description: Imwas was a Palestinian Arab village located 12 kilometres southeast of the city of Ramla and 26 kilometres from Jerusalem in the Latrun salient of the West Bank. It is traditionally identified with the biblical Emmaus.
  After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Imwas fell under Jordanian rule. Its population at the time was predominantly Arab Muslim, though there was an Arab Christian minority. Captured by the Israeli Defense Forces during the Six-Day War on June 7, 1967 along with the neighbouring villages of Yalo and Bayt Nuba, the villagers of Imwas were expelled and the village destroyed on the orders of Yitzhak Rabin. Today the area of the former village lies within Canada Park, which was established by the Jewish National Fund in 1973.
context_section_description: In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Imwas had a population of 824, all Muslim. This had increased by the time of the 1931 census to 1,029, 2 Christians and 1,027 Muslim, in 224 houses.
  In the  1945 statistics  the population of Imwas was 1,450, all Muslims, while the total land area was 5,151 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 606 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 3,612 for cereals, while 148 dunams were classified as built-up areas. By 1948, the population had dwindled to 1,100 Arabs.
caption: Imwas (Anwas) 1942 1:20,000
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