Located near Ness Ziona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council.

[1] The village was named after the numerous springs in the area, though other sources claim it is taken from Deuteronomy 8:7; "For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth in valleys and hills.

"[2] The Jewish National Fund wrote in 1949 that the name is derived from the Arabic.

[3] The foundation of the village began with the purchase of 140 acres (0.57 km2) of land by Ada Maimon as a girl's training farm[3] in 1926.

[3] During World War II, the village became an agricultural school and took in young Holocaust survivors who had succeeded in immigrating.