Shlomi was founded as a Ma'abara in 1950 by Jewish immigrants from Tunisia and Morocco on the ruins of a Palestinian village of al-Bassa, which had been destroyed during what the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,[2][3][4] and which Adolf Neubauer "proposed to identify... with the Batzet of the Talmud".

(refactored) During the 2023-24 war between Hamas and Israel, northern Israeli border communities, including Shlomi, faced targeted attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions based in Lebanon, and were evacuated.

[7] On the road between Shlomi and Kibbutz Hanita, Israeli archaeologists found the remains of Pi Metzuba, a prosperous Christian town mentioned in the Jerusalem Talmud,[8] the Tosefta (Shevi'it 4:8-ff.)

[9] The town was destroyed in the early seventh century when Persia invaded the region as part of its broader conflict with the Byzantine Empire.

[8] The site of Khirbet Ma'sub, immediately to the east of the Arab village of Bassa, is where the Masub inscription was found before being purchased by the Louvre in 1885.