Located in the Western Galilee, about six kilometers northwest of Ma'alot-Tarshiha, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma'ale Yosef Regional Council.

[1] The moshav was founded on 13 September 1960 by Jewish immigrants and refugees from North Africa on the land that had belonged to the Palestinian villages of Iqrit, Al-Nabi Rubin, Suruh and Tarbikha, whose inhabitants were expelled during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

[2][3] It was named after Arthur Menachem Hantke, a prominent Zionist leader in pre-war Germany.

[4] In a burial cave near Even Meanchem that remained untouched by lotters, a Greek inscription was discovered etched above one loculus.

The second word is distinctive, and in fact is a Greek adaptation of the Hebrew term כוך (kwk).