Spring of Olives) was an agricultural settlement about 2 km north of Safed first established in 1891.
[2] Despite strong opposition by the Turkish government, the settlers managed to establish farms[when?]
[4] In 1891 some speculators bought 430 hectares of land about 3 km north of Safed, and sold it to a party of laborers.
Unable to work the land properly, the new owners transferred it to Baron de Rothschild, with whose assistance 750,000 vines and many fruit-trees were planted in the course of six or seven years, and during this time a number of houses were built.
[6] The 1922 census of Palestine recorded a population of 37 inhabitants, consisting of 30 Jews and 7 Muslims.