Located in the Galilee about 30 km southeast of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council.

[1] Kibbutz Dalia was founded by members of two Jewish groups affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement who moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1933.

They underwent agricultural training in Romania before making Aliyah and settling in Hadar Ramatayim, Magdiel (now part of Hod HaSharon) and Kfar Malal.

The Kibbutz Artzi network of the Hashomer Hatzair movement decided to merge the groups in April 1939 and the two were symbolically united on 1 May (International Workers' Day).

[2] That same day 50 pioneers, 25 from each group, arrived at the site [3] next to the Arab village of Daliat-El-Ruha (depopulated in 1948)[4] and began farming the land which was owned by the Jewish National Fund (KKL).

[5] Among the participants was Yemeni Jewish Sara Levi-Tanai, who founded the Inbal Dance Theater company in 1949.