Located 100 m below sea level in the northern Arava valley, 12 km south of Hatzeva and between the Yahav and Nikrot streams,[2] it falls under the jurisdiction of the Central Arava Regional Council.

In 1950, an agricultural experimentation station was set up at Ein Yahav by members of Shahal, a movement to settle arid areas of Israel.

The station was abandoned and on 7 October 1953, Israel Defense Forces veterans settled there.

In 1962 it was civilianized by senior moshavniks and in 1967 the settlement moved to its current location.

A small hill with blackened slopes, covered mainly by crushed copper slag, identify the remains of the smelting devices used at the end of the Early Bronze Age for smelting copper.