United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
In 1930, the Carmelite Order built a monastery, the "House of Peace", on the tract of land purchased in 1878. In November 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine attributed the area to the Arab State. Prior to the outbreak of hostilities in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Emmaus Nicopolis ("ʻImwâs") had a population of 1,100 Arabs.