 During the early 20th century, Baron de Rothschild acquired some land in the same area for the purposes of archaeological excavation.The Meyuchas family left in the 1930s; no other Jewish families are known to have settled in the area during the period.During the later stages of the Mandate era the houses of the nearby Arab village of Silwan expanded across the Kidron Valley and up the ridge of what became Wadi Hilweh.