page_title: Ra'na
section_title: British Mandate era
hierarchical_section_title: Ra'na / History / British Mandate era
caption_attribution_description: English: Zikrin 1948 1:20,000
context_page_description: Ra'na was a village located approximately 26 km northwest of Hebron. It was occupied by the Israeli army during Operation Yo'av in October 1948. It was one of 16 villages in the Hebron district that were depopulated.
context_section_description: Ra'na was classified as  hamlet  by the Palestine Index Gazetteer. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted  by the British Mandate authorities, Ra'ana had a population of 126 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in  the 1931 census to 150, still all Muslim, in a total of  36 inhabited houses.
  In 1945 statistics the population of Ra'na was  190, all Muslims. In 1944/45 a total of 5,882 dunums of land was  planted with cereals, while 112 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Grain was the dominant crop, but during the final year of the British Mandate of Palestine,  the villagers also grew grapes, carob and olives.  14  dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.
  The kibbutz of Gal On was established in 1946 on what had traditionally been village land.
caption: Ra'na 1948 1:20,000
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image Software": "Photos 1.5", "Image DateTime": "2019:02:15 15:09:16", "Image ExifOffset": "134", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2019:02:15 15:09:16", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2019:02:15 15:09:16", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2916", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2381"}