Beit Yashout is one of the villages inhabited by the Alawite Hadadeen clan, to which former first lady Aniseh Makhluf belonged.[2] However, the village was a traditional home of the Bani Ali clan, also Alawite.[3] Beit Yashout is the hometown of Muhammad al-Khuli, a prominent military official in Baathist governments in the 1960s and throughout former president Hafez al-Assad's time in office (1970–2000).[4]