During 2000 c. 4 sq km were surveyed in the middle and western part of the Rishon Le-Ziyyon map (License No. G-35/2000). The survey, conducted within the framework of a study survey of Tel Aviv University, in cooperation with the Antiquities Authority, was directed by A. Gorzalczany, with the participation of R. Greenberg and D. Gersht.
New ancient sites were not identified. An area of c. 1 sq km was surveyed around Giv‘at Danny. Finds were discerned within a maximum radius of 300 m from the center of the site, including fragments of pottery vessels that occurred in a density of 2–3 sherds per sq m. Remains dating to the Ottoman period, which apparently originated from the village of es-Safiriya, were surveyed in the area adjacent to the Kefar Habad Junction. A few pottery fragments and many modern remains were found on a hill (Spot Height 74; map ref. NIG 1844/6536; OIG 1344/1536). Flakes and flint implements from the Middle and Late Paleolithic periods were gathered over a distance of c. 100 m in an ancient wadi channel, exposed as a result of agricultural activity, along the southwestern fringes of the hill. On the alluvial soil in the fields of Moshav Nir Zevi, a dense scatter of finds from the Byzantine period, which may be attributed to activities that occurred in the outskirts of the city of Lod, was surveyed.