 Majdal Yaba was apparently repopulated when Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in the early 16th century, and by the 1596 tax records, it was a small village in the "nahiya" ("subdistrict") of Jabal Qubal, part of Sanjak Nablus.The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on wheat, barley, beehives and goats; a total of 900 akçe.All of the revenue went to a waqf.