Part of the area was acquired by the Jewish community as part of the Sursock Purchase. In the 1945 statistics the population of Ga'aton was 140, all Jews;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4 the area was counted together with that of Shavei Tzion, Mazra'a and Ein Sara, and totalled 7,407 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40
