Located in the Hevel Eshkol area of the north-western Negev desert near the Gaza Strip border and covering an area of 4,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Eshkol Regional Council.

[1] The village was first established on 7 January 1947 as a kibbutz of the HaOved HaTzioni movement.

[2] Its name is taken[3] from Isaiah 32:18: And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

[4]On 22 April 1948 there was a severe clash between the British Army and guards of the kibbutz, with armed units including tanks arriving at the gates.

In 1950 a moshav was founded adjacent to the abandoned kibbutz by immigrants from Kurdistan.