Located in the Ayalon Valley to the south-west of Modi'in, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

It was named after Operation Nachshon,[2] which opened up the Jerusalem road during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

[citation needed] After the Six-Day War in 1967 around 80 Egyptian soldiers were buried in a mass grave in fields tended by kibbutz Nahshon.

The field was later turned into a tourist attraction, called "Mini Israel".

[3] In July 2023 the kibbutz was the site of a “festival of democracy”, the destination for a protest march against proposed judicial reforms that started in Tel Aviv and ended in nearby Jerusalem.