The Muslim village called Umm Junieh is mentioned during the Late Ottoman period (late 19th century) at the site from which the first Jewish settlers would start establishing their community in 1909–1910. A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin showed the place as ruined. "Umm Junieh" was just by the ancient bridge known in Arabic as Jisr es-Sidd, which was also noted as ruined by Jacotin.