Located near Yehud, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council.

[1] During the 18th and 19th centuries, the area of Magshimim belonged to the Nahiyeh (sub-district) of Lod that encompassed the area of the present-day city of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut in the south to the present-day city of El'ad in the north, and from the foothills in the east, through the Lod Valley to the outskirts of Jaffa in the west.

[2] The moshav was founded in 1949 by demobilised IDF soldiers on land that had previously belonged to the Palestinian village of Al-'Abbasiyya, which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

[3] They were later joined by immigrants from Germany, Iraq and Poland.

[4] Amongst other things, the moshav's economy is built on flower exports and manufacturing printers.