Kafr 'Inan
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| Arabic | كفر عنان |
| Name meaning | Village of Anan |
| Also spelled | Kefr 'Anan, |
| Subdistrict | Acre |
| Coordinates | 32°55′23″N 35°25′07″E / 32.92306°N 35.41861°ECoordinates: 32°55′23″N 35°25′07″E / 32.92306°N 35.41861°E |
| Palestine grid | 189/259 |
| Population | 360 (1945) |
| Area | 5,827 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | February 1949 captured on 30 October 1948 during the Golani Brigade (part of Operation Hiram) |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Expulsion by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Kfar Hananya |
Kafr ʿInān (Arabic: كفر عنان), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Acre Subdistrict around 33 kilometres (21 mi) east of Acre. Until 1949, it was an Arab village built over the ruins of ancient Kfar Hananya. Archaeological surveys indicate the village was founded in the early Roman period, and was inhabited through the Byzantine period. It was resettled in the Middle Ages and the modern era.
Captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, many of the villagers fled the fighting. Those few hundred who managed to remain or to return were subsequently transferred out of the village by the Israel Defense Forces to the West Bank or to other Arab towns in the newly established Israel on three separate occasions in January and February 1949.
A shrine for the Sheikh Abu Hajar Azraq and the remains of a small domed building are still standing, along with the remains of various burial sites of rabbis. Archaeological remains include cisterns and domestic wells which supplied the village with drinking water from nearby springs. In 1989, the Israeli community settlement of Kfar Hananya was established on village land on a hill adjacent to the village itself.
During the period of Roman and Byzantine rule in Palestine, it was a Jewish village known as Kfar Hananya (or Kfar Hanania), that served as a center for pottery production in the Galilee. Archaeological excavations revealed shafts and bases of columns, caves, a pool, and a burial ground. Most of the cooking ware in the Galilee between the 1st century BCE and the beginning of the 5th century CE was produced here. An Aramaic inscription initially dated to the 6th century, and recently redated to Abbasid or Umayyad period, was found on a kelila (a type of hanging lamp) found in the synagogue.
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