British Mandate era

Ra'na was classified as hamlet by the Palestine Index Gazetteer.^[12] In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ra'ana had a population of 126 inhabitants, all Muslims,^[13] increasing in the 1931 census to 150, still all Muslim, in a total of 36 inhabited houses.^[14]

In 1945 statistics the population of Ra'na was 190, all Muslims.^[4][3] 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.^[12][15] 14 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas.^[16]

The kibbutz of Gal On was established in 1946 on what had traditionally been village land.^[12]

1948, and after

The village was attacked by the Giv'ati Brigade on 22–23 October 1948. Those villagers who had not already fled were expelled and the village destroyed.^[12]

Following the war, the area was incorporated into the State of Israel. Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described that the site of the village in 1992: "The site is fenced in with barbed wire and is overgrown in part by cactuses, especially where there is limestone soil, and by carob trees. No houses or rubble remains."^[12]