 During early Ottoman rule , in 1596 , Lajjun had a population of 226 people . In the British Mandate census in 1922 , there were 417 inhabitants . In the 1931 census of Palestine , the population had more than doubled to 857 , of which 829 were Muslims , 26 were Christians , as well as two Jews . In that year , there were 162 houses in the village . At the end of 1940 , Lajjun had 1 @,@ 103 inhabitants . 
