Located around seven kilometres west of Afula, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council.

In a regional survey carried out in the area, Raban reported the presence of tombs in and around the site that date to the Middle Bronze, Iron, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods.

[6] The moshav was founded in 1949 by a youth group from Austria, Germany, Romania and Israel who were members of the Beit Eshel lookout, which was destroyed during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

At the end of 1958 the moshav was connected to the electricity grid and in 1960 a post office branch was opened in the village.

[10] The economy of the moshav is based on agriculture, including field crops, an olive press, dairy farms, poultry farms, greenhouses, as well as small businesses in various fields such as flower shops, organic crops, farm-to-table cooking workshops, horse stables which export to the Arab World and green construction.