Located on the Israeli coastal plain around a kilometer south of the Malakhi Junction, near the town of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council.

[1] The village also functions as a community settlement for its community of non-members The village was established in 1948 by a gar'in of youth from South Africa, Romania and Egypt from the youth movement HaNoar HaTzioni as a kibbutz on Shimron Hill in the Lower Galilee, in the area now covered by the community settlement of Timrat.

[2] It was built on the land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Tall al-Turmus.

In 1954 the settlement moved to its current location due to a shortage of land at its original site.

A dairy herd of 450 head is managed jointly with Kibbutz Hulda.