Located near Sderot and the Gaza Strip, and covering 11,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council.

This led to the establishment of Conjunto Mefalsim, a band that performed Argentine and Latin American music, appearing on radio and television.

[8] Mefalsim-Kfar Aza is a farming cooperative that grows roots vegetables such as potatoes and carrots over an area of 14,000 dunams (roughly 3,500 acres).

[9] In 2022 the Shibolet Group acquired an area of 22 dunams of kibbutz land for the establishment of a logistics center for industrial companies.

Tel ʽIrit is the site of a pottery workshop dated to the late Byzantine period (end of the sixth–beginning of seventh centuries CE).