Located in the Menashe Heights with an area of 14,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council.

[1] Kibbutz Gal'ed was established in 1945 by a gar'in of German HaBonim members which had formed in 1938.

Because the land on which the kibbutz lies was bought with money donated by Isaac (Yitzhak) Ochberg (1879–1938), a South African philanthropist, Keren HaYesod wanted the kibbutz named "Even Yitzhak" (lit.

'monument or memorial') to commemorate friends and family of the founders who had died in the Holocaust.

[2] The land had traditionally belonged to the Palestinian village of Al-Butaymat, which was depopulated in 1948.