[2] The village lies on one of the last cliffs marking the edge of the Judean highlands, and overlooks the Jordan Rift Valley, the Dead Sea, and the Palestinian city of Jericho, whence its name is derived.

Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon suggested a few days later that they relocate to a hilltop overlooking Jericho, its current location.

[3] According to ARIJ, in 1978 Israel confiscated 968 dunams of land from the Palestinian site of Nabi Musa in order to construct Mitzpe Yeriho.

[4] The same year, the settlement was the site of a Palestinian terrorist attack in which an intercity bus was bombed, killing four and wounding 37 people.

They later split up into two groups, and the non-observant members established a new settlement, Vered Yericho, located in the Jordan Valley below Mitzpe Yeriho and closer to Jericho.

[13] The community is home to several businesses including an electronics facility, and also serves tourism in the nearby Wadi Qelt nature reserve and its Byzantine-era Saint George Monastery and Hasmonean-era Kypros fortress.