[2] Located in the Lower Galilee, south of Carmiel and in the vicinity of the Atzmon mountain ridge, north of the Beit Netofa Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council.

[2] Ancient Yodfat, Koinē Greek: Ἰωτάπατα,[4] which was situated to the southeast of the modern moshav, is mentioned in the Mishnah as a walled Israelite village dating from the time of Joshua corresponding with the Iron Age.

Led by future emperor Vespasian, three Roman legions—Legio V Macedonica, X Fretensis, and XV Apollinaris—besieged Yodfat, meeting strong Jewish resistance.

"[A]n inscription bearing the names of the miśmarōṯ (priestly wards), which was initially discovered in September 1970 by W. Müller and then, independently, by P. Grjaznevitch within a mosque in Bayt al-Ḥāḍir, a village situated near Tan‘im, east of Ṣanʻā’.

"[12][3][5] This town is mentioned in the Talmud as the home of Rabbi Menachem (Hebrew: רבי מנחם יודפאה, romanized: ribbi Mənaḥēm Yoḏp̄āʾā, lit.

Ancient Yodfat was first identified in 1847 by Ernst Gustav Schultz (1811–1851), Egyptologist and Prussian consul in Jerusalem, using the geographical and topographical descriptions provided by Josephus, as well as by the phonetic similarity to the adjacent ruin of Khirbet Shifat.

[8] Six excavation seasons were carried out at the site between 1992 and 2000, under the direction of Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret Academic College on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Rochester.

[18] A fragment from a storage jar bears a Jewish script inscription displaying the Hebrew letters אכ was also found at the site.