History
Archaeological excavation at the village has yielded pottery fragments from the Chalcolithic Period and the Early Bronze Age.The village may have been built over the Canaanite town of Siddim or Ziddim (Joshua 19:35), which in the third century BC acquired the Old Hebrew name Kfar Hittin ("village of grain"). It was known as Kfar Hittaya in the Roman period. In the 4th century, it was a Jewish rabbinical town.
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