[7][8] In the 1596 tax records it was named Jalama dir nazd Qaqun, part of nahiya (subdistrict) of Sara under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun.

It had an all-Muslim population of 7 households, who paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, summer crops, occasional revenues, beehives and/or goats; a total of 12,000 akçe.

[10] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village as a small adobe hamlet, situated on the side of a knoll.

[4][12] In the 1931 census of Palestine it was counted under Attil (together with Al-Manshiyya and Zalafa),[13] while by the 1945 statistics al-Jalama had grown to a population of 70,[3] mainly belonging to two extended families, the Nadaf and the Daqqa.

[14][15] According to Article VI, section 6 in this Armistice Agreement, the villagers were "protected in, their full rights of residence, property and freedom."

[5] They were expelled by the military to the neighbouring village of Jatt, a move that Meron Benvenisti called "unquestionably illegal".