 The remains of a court-yard home from the Crusader period remains in the centre of the village.In 1596, Lifta was a village in the Ottoman Empire, "nahiya" (subdistrict) of Jerusalem under the "liwa'" (district) of Jerusalem, and it had a population 72 Muslim households, an estimated 396 persons.It paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, fruit orchards and vineyards; a total of 4,800 akçe.