The settlement population was 460 in 2004, according to a classified government document published by the Haaretz newspaper,[2] and lies within the municipal jurisdiction of the Har Hevron Regional Council.

In 1989, the residents of Beit Hagai founded a special needs children's village which has provided a home, education, and services for dozens of young people.

In the summer of 2006, the village welcomed a group of families who had been evacuated from Kfar Darom, Gush Katif, as a part of Israel's disengagement from the settlements in the Gaza Strip.

The Kollel is named Or Yosef (Light of Joseph) after Yossi Shuk, a resident of the village, who had been killed during the Palestinian uprising in December 2005.

[citation needed] On August 31, 2010 four residents of Beit Hagai—Yitzhak and Tali Ames, Kochava Even Haim and Avishai Schindler—were shot dead by local Palestinian militants while driving a car near the settlement.

[citation needed] The community maintains a close connection with the families of the three boys for whom the village is named, and every year, on the anniversary of their murder, "Shabbat Hagai" is commemorated in memory of the three.