Located near Shoham, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council.

[1] During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area around Giv'at Ko'ah 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.

[4] It was named for the 28 soldiers (כ"ח is the Hebrew numerals for 28) from the Alexandroni Brigade who died in fighting at Qula during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

[7] Giv'at Ko'ah was also home to a group of Cochin Jews who emigrated from the village of Chendamangalam, India.

In 2010, the Nehemiah Mott Synagogue was built in Giv'at Ko'ah, named after a Yemenite kabbalist revered by this community.