The village has a strategic location in the Hermon mountains of Lebanon, as it overlooks the Upper Galilee of Israel and is very close by to the Golan Heights and the Shebaa farms.

[1] Important intellectual figures of Kfar Hamam include the village's previous Mokhtar (village mayor) Abdo Ali Abdulhamid, the previous Lebanese Member of Parliament Ahmad Sweid, the Judge Mohamed Sweid, and Dr. Ghazi Chahrour who happened to be one of the first few doctors to find a cure for certain cases of cancer around the world.

His last exile was a result of his resistance and effort to dismantle a plan by the Israeli government settle Jewish Falasha people of African descent in settlements in the Hasbaya district.

He worked with other local elected officials like Kamel al Assaad and the Lebanese government to prevent this plan from materializing.

One of the earliest Lebanese Communist Party members to die in armed struggle for the liberation of South Lebanon was a Kfar Hamam native, Yehya El-Khaled.

The following period of Hezbollah hegemony over Lebanon and the Syrian Civil War next door has meant continued economic hardship for communities in Kfarhamam and beyond.

Most community members currently live in the diaspora, mainly in Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, France, Canada, Netherlands, and USA.