[4] Later an Arab village, Kafr Harib, existed at the south edge of the current settlement's built-up area.

Kafr Harib appeared in Ottoman tax registers in 1596 as a village in the Nahiya of Jawlan Garbi in the Qada of Hawran.

[5] In 1888, Gottlieb Schumacher described it as a village of 70 stone and mud huts with about 200 "affable and hospitable" inhabitants, who ran an excellent bee industry in addition to cultivation.

[4] The new Israeli founders settled temporarily in Afik camp, and moved to the present-day location (the site of a Syrian army base that overlooks Ein Gev and HaOn) in 1974.

It is a co-operator of Hamat Gader, and operates Mitzpe LeShalom (Peace Vista), a tourist attraction on the edge of the cliffs.