Located on the outskirts of Jerusalem, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

[1] Even Sapir was established in 1949 on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Ayn Karim.

[2] The moshav was founded by Hebrew repatriants returning from Kurdistan.

The name was either taken from Even Sapir, a book written in 1864 by Yaakov Halevi Sapir, a Jerusalem rabbi and emissary,[3] which describes his travels to Yemen in the 19th century,[4] or it was named after Pinchas Sapir, Israel's finance minister, who encouraged Jewish businessmen from the Diaspora to invest in Palestine and the nascent state.

[7] Even Sapir is a home to "Ben Gurion Institute of Science & Technology", Jerusalem Campus, a housing estate designated for 430 local and international students.