Located on Givat HaMoreh (Jebel Dahi in Arabic) overlooking Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bustan al-Marj Regional Council.

Dahia, an ambassador of Muhammad, attempted to convert Byzantine emperor Heraclius to Islam.

[4] In 1875 Victor Guérin found here a small village, consisting of fifteen "miserable" houses, surrounded by gardens and bordered by cactus hedges.

[5] In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a little hamlet of stone cabins, on the saddle west of the conical peak of Jebel ed Duhy.

[12] In February 2016 Bustan al-Marj Regional Council announced that its offices would move from Afula to Ed-Dahi.