 Gottlieb Schumacher, as part of surveying for the construction of the Jezreel Valley railway, noted in 1900 that Junjar had increased slightly (compared with the SWP-findings), and it then numbered 16 huts and had about 70 inhabitants.In 1921, 4,000 dunums of land in "Jinjar" was sold to Zionist groups by the Sursock family, its absentee landlords in Lebanon.At the time, there were 25 families living there.