Located in the southern coastal plain around three kilometers north-west of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shafir Regional Council.

Institute for Regional Education), made up of young members of Agudat Yisrael.

[2] In 1996 the Ministry of Interior granted the village municipal council status and renamed it Aluma.

In 2014, the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered a 1,500-year-old Byzantine church containing an ancient mosaic floor bearing a Christogram surrounded by birds.

[3] The church was discovered during a salvage dig prior to the construction of a new neighborhood on the moshav.