Majd al-Krum has been identified as Beit HaKerem, a Jewish Talmudic-period town mentioned in the Mishnah, whose means the same in Hebrew and Arabic.

[4][5] Majd al-Krum is an ancient site in the heart of the Galilee, situated in the northwestern end of the Beit HaKerem Valley, called al-Shaghur in Arabic, at the foot of Jabal Mahüz.

It historically derived its importance from its position in the valley, which serves as the shortest and most accessible route between Acre in the west to the central Galilee, Safed, and Damascus to the east, and from its abundant spring.

[10] Stephanie was the maternal grandmother of John Aleman, who transferred Beit Jann, Sajur, Nahf and Majd al-Krum to the Teutonic Knights in 1249.

An Ottoman document from 1573 states that the men of Majd al-Krum and nearby villages joined forces with the members of the Shihab clan and Mansur ibn Furaykh from the Beqaa Valley, carrying out raids that led to the deaths of fifty or sixty people.

[12] Majd al-Krum was listed in the 1596 Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Acre, part of the Safed Sanjak.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olives or fruit trees, cotton, and goats and/or beehives; a total of 16,560 akçe.

[13][14] During Zaydani family rule of the Galilee under the chief Zahir al-Umar (1730s–1770s), Majd al-Krum was a fortified village, with an unspecified number of towers built along its walls sometime during the same period.

Ali gathered the fighting men of Majd al-Krum, along with Abu Sinan and Deir Hanna, and besieged Jazzar's camp.

[16] Once Majd al-Krum had fallen, Jazzar executed its defenders and sent their severed heads to the imperial capital at Constantinople as evidence of his success.

Abu Faris later left Palestine for Lebanon after a major political leader of the revolt, Amin al-Husayni, ordered his assassination.

Before the deadline was reached, the commanding Israeli officer ordered the demolition of a home and gathered five residents, blindfolded them and executed them by gunfire to demonstrate their seriousness.

"[30] According to Yiftachel, Majd al-Krum "experienced tremendous upheaval" during the 1948 war, with about half of its inhabitants becoming refugees in Lebanon while becoming home to about 300 people from nearby villages,[7] mainly Sha'ab, Damun and Birwa.

[31] Prior to the 1948 war, Majd al-Krum's land area consisted of 20,065 dunams (20.07 hectares), 69% of which was expropriated by the Israeli state between 1948 and the mid-1970s.

[34] In 1964 about 5,100 dunams of land were expropriated by the state for the construction of the Jewish town of Karmiel, whose establishment was declared as an effort to Judaize the Galilee by Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.

On October 25, 2024, two residents, Hassan Suad (21) and Arjwan Manaa (19), were killed when salvo of approximately 30 rockets fired by Hezbollah struck the area.

[41] Hezbollah later claimed responsibility for the attack, stating it targeted the city of Karmiel, which is approximately 6 km to the southeast of Majd al-Krum.

[44] The headquarters of Moona, an NGO that works to integrate Israeli Arabs into the high tech industry, are located in Majd al-Krum.