[1] The cooperative association was registered on October 13, 1944, as "Reshafim Kibutz Hashomer Hatzair Kvutzat Poalim Lehityashvut Shetufit Limited".

With the decline of Western socialism and growing economic difficulties in the 1980s and 1990s population numbers stagnated.

During the 1990s a process of privatization began, culminating in members receiving salaries and having to pay for services.

In 2022 the commune still owns a dairy, orchards, fresh-water fishery, solar power installations, is partner in a chicken farm, an agricultural co-operative, and in a production facility for medicinal cannabis.

It has sold all its shares in the Terraflex Industries plastics factory, but continued to own and lease its installations.