Located in the Jerusalem Corridor, about 10 km west of central Jerusalem, next to Highway 1 and the Hemed Interchange [he], between Mevaseret Zion and Kiryat Ye'arim, south of Kiryat Anavim,[2] it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

[1] Beit Nekofa's name may be based on the name of an ancient town, Nukveta (Hebrew: נוּקְבְתָא) of Benjamin, mentioned in the Talmud, from which the ancestors of Rabbi Judah haNasi are said to have come from.

[3] According to Zev Vilnay, Beit Nekofa was mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud as the place of residence of a family of Kohanim.

[6] Two thousand dunams of forest and dozens of buildings in Kiryat Anavim and Beit Nekofa were destroyed or damaged in the blaze.

[7] Beit Nekofa runs a bronze foundry that employs many Arabs from the surrounding villages.