Located in the north-western Negev desert and covering 8,500 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council.

[1] During World War I British forces established an air base at the village site after the withdrawal of the Turks.

The area containing the villages was to be included as part of the Arab state in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine but was under Israeli control at the end of the war, with the government forbidding the Palestinian residents from returning.

[8] Israeli forces counterattacked with tanks the following day, successfully eliminating the remaining Hamas assailants in the vicinity of the kibbutz.

[9] The swimming pool at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, at which the Israeli 4×100 meters medley relay squad made the finals, was heated by solar panels manufactured by the kibbutz.