Gal On stands on a hill approximately twenty kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

With average rainfall and temperate weather, Gal On’s Mediterranean climate facilitates agricultural production.

[3] The core group, or gar'in, that would eventually found the kibbutz was formed from members of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Youth Movement in Poland.

Once their group grew to thirty, they transferred to Givat Michael northwest of Ness Ziona to train for settlement (hakhshara).

The group worked to build roads as well as harvest fruit in the neighboring orchards in the developing area.

Just after the close of Yom Kippur between 5–6 October 1946, the group moved to their current location next to Kibbutz Gat in the Shephelah as one of the 11 points of settlement established in the area that night.

[citation needed] The kibbutz's population was boosted by a group of Holocaust survivors who had arrived on the refugee ship Exodus in 1947.

The factory was converted to electrical motor production, but it too succumbed to the Chinese market and closed down.