The site of the village lies on the summit of a conical hill called Tel Tzova (Hebrew: תל צובה), or Jabal Suba, rising 769 meters above sea level, and it was built on the ruins of a Crusader castle.

[6] It has been suggested that Suba was Subahiet, one of 21 villages given by King Godfrey as a fief to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

[15][16] Today, parts of the northern and western Crusader wall remain, as well as ruins of a tower and other structures.

[6] Suba, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the tax registers of 1596, there were 60 Muslim and 7 Christian families living there; an estimated 369 persons.

They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olives and grapes; a total of 3,800 akçe.

[24] In 1838 Suba was noted as a Muslim village, located in the Beni Malik district, west of Jerusalem.

[2][38] During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the village saw fierce fighting, due to its key location near the Jerusalem highway.

The village was attacked several times by the Haganah, and finally conquered by the Palmach during the night of July 12–13 as part of Operation Danny.

[26] Today Tel Tzova is a national park[citation needed] surrounded by the lands of the kibbutz.