al-Ruways

The village, situated on the site of the Crusader 'Careblier,' stood on a small rocky hill overlooking the plain of Acre. A secondary road connected it with the villages of al-Damun and al-Birwa, to the north, and ultimately to the Acre–Safad highway. This road also linked it to the main Acre–Haifa road, on the coast. In the late nineteenth century, al-Ruways was situated on open ground with olive groves to the north. Its entire population of about 400 was Muslim. Al-Ruways was one of the smallest villages in the sub-disctrict. The village houses, built initially of stone and, from the 1930s onward, of reinforced concrete, were grouped in two quarters, separated by a road. The village had its own mosque; its children went to school in the village of al-Damun. The people of al-Ruways obtained their drinking water from domestic wells that collected rainwater in the winter. They worked principally in agriculture, cultivating wheat, corn, sesame, watermelons, and olives. In 1944/45 a total of 844 dunums was allocated to cereals; 222 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, of which 40 dunums were planted with olive trees.

Southwest of al-Ruways was a khirba, the antiquities of which included fallen walls, cisterns, and rock–hewn tombs. Milestones that once marked Roman roads were found 1 km to the southeast.