Located south of Petah Tikva, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council.

[1] The Nehalim community was formed in 1938 by a core group of young, religious Bnei Akiva members from Jerusalem.

[2] In 1944 they moved to a tract of swampy, malaria-infested land, about a kilometre south east of the site of the present kibbutz HaGoshrim, and lived in barracks without electricity or running water.

After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the residents were moved to the abandoned German Templer village of Wilhelma.

The new moshav, in its present location south of Petah Tikva, was founded in 1953, with each family receiving a two-room house and 25 dunams of land.