al-Judeira

In the Ottoman census of the 1500s, Jadira was noted as a village located in the nahiya of Jerusalem.[4]

In 1838 el-Jedireh was noted as a Muslim village, located north of Jerusalem.[5][6]

In 1863 Guérin described it as a small village, with a mosque consecrated to a Sheikh Yassin. In the courtyard in front of this sanctuary, he noticed what was possibly an old Corinthian capital, which had been made into a mortar, where the villagers pounded coffee.[7] An Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that the village had a population of 40, in a total of 13 houses, though the population count only included men. It was also noted that it was located east of Al Jib.[8][9]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a small village on a slope, surrounded by figs and olives, and with rock-cut tombs to the north."[10]

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Ijdireh had a population of 122, all Muslims,[11] increasing in the 1931 census to 139 Muslim inhabitants, in 31 inhabited houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics Judeira had a population of 190 Muslims,[13] with 2,044 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of this, 353 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,314 used for cereals,[15] while 7 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[16]

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, al-Judeira came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 328 inhabitants in Judeira.[17]

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, al-Judeira has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 25.4% of the village’s land was classified as Area B, the remaining 74.6% is classified was Area C.[18]

In 2005, Israel started the construction of a separation barrier around al-Judeira, Al Jib, Bir Nabala, Beit Hanina al-Balad and Kalandiya.[19] The wall was built on Palestinian land seized by Military Orders.[20] The wall completely surrounds the villages, forming an enclave.[21]