[3][2] The name Gath was used in ancient times to refer to various settlements from the Judean Lowlands in the south to the Galilee in the north.

[4] Two ancient burial sites, dating from the Roman period, were discovered in a salvage excavation conducted at Jatt during the 1980s.

Based on the findings, excavators suggest the site was used by a wealthy Jewish family of the period, which may have had property in the toparchy of Narbata in the chore of Casesarea Maritima.

[8][9] Jatt, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun.

Amid the small materials, which are principally constructed, I observed a certain number of cut stones of ancient date.

In the courtyard of one house I found an old capital of white marble hollowed to serve as a mortar, and now used to grind coffee.

Direct elections were held for the mayoralty for the first time in the 1960s, with Ali Abdul-Razzaq Malak, succeeded by Sharif Jameel Gara.

Galal Abd al-Kader Wattad won the 1988 elections, and Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Asba returned to the mayoralty in 1993.