[4] Kibbutz-movement historian Zvi Dror published a history of the founding of Beit HaArava in 1994, entitled Shutfut Bema'aseh Habria (literally, "Participating in the Act of Creation").

[4] On 20 May 1948, after a failure to reach an agreement with Transjordan's King Abdullah, Beit HaArava and the nearby Kalya were abandoned due to their isolation during the fighting of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

[6] Its members were later temporarily housed in kibbutz Shefayim, and ultimately split into two groups which in 1949 founded the kibbutzim of Gesher HaZiv and Kabri in the Western Galilee.

According to ARIJ, in 1980 Israel expropriated 506 dunams of land from the Palestinian site of Nabi Musa in order to expand construction at Beit HaArava.

Today Beit HaArava has 70 families, 30 of them members of the kibbutz, numbering approximately 400 people, with an increase of 36,5% in 2019 being the fastest growing municipality in the whole of Israel.