[1] During the Ottoman period, the lands of the future Bnei Atarot belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west.

[2] Bnei Atarot is located on the site of the Templer colony of Wilhelma, established in 1902, and named in honour of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

During World War II, German settlers in Mandatory Palestine were arrested as enemy nationals and deported by the British.

[3] After the war ended, a new settlement was established by former residents of the abandoned moshav of Atarot, which had been destroyed by the Arab Legion, from which it took its name,[4] as well as others from Nehalim in the Upper Galilee and Be'erot Yitzhak in the Negev.

The proximity of Tel Aviv metropolitan area has led to suburbanization and the rural character of the village gradually decreased.