Located in the Ono Valley in the Sharon plain between Ganei Tikva and Petah Tikva, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council.

[1] The moshav was founded in 1926 by workers from Petah Tikva who were children of middle class immigrants of the Fourth Aliyah.

It was initially called HaTehiya (Hebrew: התחייה, lit.

Revival), but later took the Biblical name[2] of Gat Rimmon [he], a Levite town in the land of the Tribe of Dan which is mentioned in Joshua 19:45.

According to the 1931 census Gat Rimon had a population of 142 Jews, in 30 houses.