 In the 1596 tax records, Yazur was a village in the "nahiya" ("subdistrict") of Ramla, part of Sanjak of Gaza.It had a population 50 Muslim households, an estimated 275 persons.The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives; a total of 19,250 akçe.