Raml Zayta

The village stood on a flat, sandy spot on the central coastal plain. It was linked by a secondary road to the coastal highway, and by dirt paths to neighboring villages. Its houses, built of mud, cement, and stone, were dispersed in no particular pattern; most were built in the middle of farms. The village had some small shops scattered among the houses. The villagers obtained their domestic water from wells, and most of them worked in agriculture and livestock breeding. Agriculture, which was both rainfed and irrigated by water drawn from wells, was based on grain, vegetables, and watermelons. In 1944/45 a total of 126 dunums was devoted to citrus and bananas and 12,554 dunums were allotted to cereals; 27 additional dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. In the eastern part of the village lands lay Khirbat Tall Durur, which had been a prosperous village in the sub-disctrict of Haifa during Ottoman times but which was deserted during the British Mandate as a result of the dispute over the lands of neighboring Wadi al-Hawarith.