19th century In 1810,
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited the village and wrote: "... One hour more brought us to the village of Djoubeta, where we remained during the night at the house of some friends of the Sheikh of Banias. This village belongs to
Hasbeya; it is inhabited by about fifty Turkish and ten Greek families; they subsist chiefly by the cultivation of olives, and by the rearing of cattle. I was well treated at the house where we alighted, and also at that of the Sheikh of the village, where I went to drink a cup of coffee. It being Ramadan, we passed the greater part of the night in conversation and smoking; the company grew merry, and knowing that I was curious about ruined places, began to enumerate all the villages and ruins in the neighbourhood, of which I subjoin the names.* The neighbouring mountains of the Heish abound in tigers (نمورة nimoura); their skins are much esteemed by the Arab Sheikhs as saddle cloths. There are also bears, wolves, and stags; the wild boar is met with in all the mountains which I visited in my tour." In 1838,
Eli Smith noted Jubata ez-Zeit's population as
Sunni Muslims and
Antiochian Greek Christians.
1967 and aftermath About half of the residents of Jubat ez-Zeit fled during the fighting in the
Six-Day War of June 1967. The remaining half were expelled from the Golan Heights by the
Israeli Army after the war. Israeli soldiers forced the civilians of the village to flee by shooting at them. Disabled people still in the village were put on donkeys by the Israelis and escorted out of the Golan. The village was later demolished. The Jubata ez-Zeit mosque was initially spared. One year after the war, in 1968, the area was declared a closed military zone. In the early 1970s, the
Israeli settlement of
Neve Ativ was built on the site of the former village. ==Geography==