Hadatha

The village, located between two small wadis, was to the east and west of a gently sloping, rocky hill. It was surrounded by a basin fed by numerous wadis that carried runoff down from the surrounding heights and merged to form Wadi al-Bira, a tributary of the Jordan. A spring to the east of the site provided the residents with fresh water. Hadatha was linked by a secondary road to the village of Kafr Kama, itself on a highway leading to Samakh on the southern tip of Lake Tiberias. In 1596, Hadatha was a village in the nahiya of Tiberias (liwa' of Safad) with a population of 121. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including wheat and barley, as well as on other types of property, such as goats and beehives.

In the late nineteenth century, Hadatha was a village built of stone and situated on a hilltop. The 150 residents of the village cultivated grapes, figs, and olives. During the British Mandate, the village had a triangular layout, and its houses were spread northwest along the road to Kafr Kama. The people of Hadatha were Sunni Muslims, except for one Christian and one Druze. An elementary school was established in 1897, during the Ottoman period, but it was closed during the British Mandate. Agriculture was based on olives and vegetables. Olive trees were planted mainly in the highlands in the north and east, while vegetables were grown on the lands lying to the east, west, and south. In 1944/45 a total of 8,379 dunums was allocated to cereals; 199 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards. Hadatha was an archaeological site that contained a vaulted structure built over a spring and the remains of a press.