Al- Lajjun, it was a Palestinian Arab village located 16 kilometers northwest of Jenin and one kilometer south of what remains of the Canaanite city of Megiddo. It was named after a Roman army camp affiliated with the Syrian-Palestinian province, established at the village's site and called "Legio." The history of Lajjun dates back 2,000 years. During the Abbasid rule, Lajjun served as the capital of a small sub-district. In the Mamluk era, it was an important station on the postal route, and under Ottoman rule, it became the capital of the region named .after it

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, Lajjun, along with all of Palestine, came under British mandate administration. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, on May 30th, the village was destroyed by armed Zionist organizations, its inhabitants were displaced, and most of them settled in Umm al-Fahm due to its proximity. Today, only a few of its

traces remain. In 1949, the Israeli government established the kibbutz of Megiddo on its lands