The village's residents stated that after they fled, only the local militia remained, but withdrew after shelling from the Jewish town of Manara and after seeing an armored unit approaching al-Khalisa.
This fort commanded the main road to Upper Galilee and the routes to the Jewish settlements of Ramot Naftali and Manara.
In February 2008, a 21 percent equity stake was acquired by Manara Investments Ltd.
Late in the reign of Elizabeth I of England, Spanish noble Don Juan de Mañara (Errol Flynn) is repatriated from London to Madrid after a serious diplomatic scandal caused by his affair with the British fiancée of a Spanish duke.
Manara Boys' Language School (Arabic: منارة القاهرة بنين, transliteration: Mānāret Al-Qāhīra li-l-banīn), founded as the The Islamic Cairo Manara in 1985, is an Egyptian school located at Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt.
In connection with their joint project Quarantasei, in July 2006, Manara designed a helmet for Moto GP rider Valentino Rossi, specifically made for the Italian GP in Mugello.