[1] The place was originally called "Kiryat Moshe", after Moshe Mordechai Manisewicz, one of the leaders of the Bialystok Association, but the village's name was changed to Kfar Uria due to the similarity of the sounds to the name of the Arab village of Kafrûria, an "abandoned or sparsely populated" estate situated about half a kilometer west of the new settlement.
But as the purchase was done by people that according to the Pasha are real farmers - Menashe Meirowitz and others from Rishon Lezion, Rehovot and Gedera, who, the ban did not apply on them.
[10] In early 1913, Meir Rothberg invited the "Sajra gang", which included mong 13 others, A. d. Gordon, Noah Naftolsky, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Eva Tabenkin, Ben-Zion Israeli, Yosef Salzman and Yitzhak Finerman, to come and settle the place under the public administration of the Israel Ministry.
[12] By mid-1913, the place was sold to thirty families of Bialystok Jews[13] who bought it with the help of the Berlin Society for the Settlement of the Land of Israel (ICA).
The first group of laborers left the place as they claimed that Krasner lacks managerial experience and engages in religious coercion.
[21] After World War I a work group of Levi Eshkol[22] arrived to Kfar Urias and stayed there for about two years.
At the beginning of 1920, a group of 14 workers stayed there[23] but later that year, they moved to Degania Bet on the occasion of the settlement of the landowners there.
[29] In the 1929 Palestine riots 300 Arab rioters from Jerusalem attacked Kfar Uria, with some local help, robbed and burned down the village.
[31] Six Jewish families who had stayed behind were later smuggled out by the mukhtar of Beit Far via one of the ancient natural tunnels that crisscrosses the area.
[citation needed] The village center features an old Khan, which once hosted the agricultural training workers, including A. D. Gordon.
[citation needed] In 2013, an archaeological survey was conducted at the site by Irina Zilberbod on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).