 Beginning in the 1970s, the Jewish Agency launched efforts to build around sixty small Jewish communities, then known as "mitzpim" (observation points), in between Arab villages in the Galilee to monitor and check Arab building activity.Among these Jewish communities were Lavon, Tuval, Gilon and Tzurit, which all border Majd al-Krum.Several hundred residents of Majd al-Krum took part in the Land Day demonstrations of 1976, which protested another round of the state's expropriation of Arab-owned land, in which 2,100 dunams from Majd al-Krum were transferred to expand Karmiel.