 Two hunters looking for hyraxes stumbled upon a cave where they found an ancient cistern filled with water.Concluding that this was a good place for permanent settlement, several families settled on the site of what would become Beit Jann.In 1517, the village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596, "Bayt Jinn" appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in "nahiya" (subdistrict) of Akka under the "liwa'" (district) of Safad.