The site, as mentioned previously has many historical meaningful roots. It was the stage set for many significant historical events.
The settlement of Bat Ayin, in an arid environment has not been inhabited for more than two thousand years. Some artifacts dating form the second temple period indicates that the last to inhabit the area were probably Jews who were serving at the Temple.
The settlement lies at mid point between the two holly cites of Hebron and Jerusalem. There are, traditionally, four wholly cities in Israel. Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberius, each associated to the four different elements, respectively, fire, earth, air and water.
The area of the gush Etzion lies at mid point between the fire and earth elements. In some ways the one can sense that the population is almost at equilibrium with these two elements. They posses a great fire translated into passion and love of the soil they are living on. They live with a great consciousness of the importance of land that is considered a divine gift, where working it and inhabiting it, is one of the fundamental aspects to their lives.

Bat Ayin is the youngest settlement in the area and is the home place for 70 families. The population is almost 100 percent part of the Religious Zionist movement.
Bat Ayin has three advanced learning yeshiva (religious schools), two for women and one for men, and one large community synagogue.
The existing population of the area is spread out over the allotted land of the settlement with some of the population still living in prefabricated caravans.
There is 24 hour security and a gate to the settlement that and visitor of the settlement passes through.
Public transportation runes every hour on the hour to the center of Jerusalem.