The village was established in 1950 by
immigrants from
Yemen on land that had belonged to the
Palestinian village of
Ajjur, which was occupied and depopulated in October 1948 by the Fourth Battalion of the
Giv'ati Brigade as part of
Operation Yoav. In 1953 the founders left to establish another moshav,
Nahala; Agur was repopulated by immigrants from
Northern Kurdistan. investigators visiting Agur following the murder of 2 farm workers ==Economy==