 In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as being in the "nahiya" ("Subdistrict") of Tabariyya under the "Liwa" ("District") of Safad with a population of 14 Muslim households.The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 2,200 akçe.A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place, named as "Iaffa."