Located in the Sharon plain near Highway 57 and north of the country's center, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council.

[1] The kibbutz was established in 1950 by a gar'in of Dror members and was named in honour of Hannah Szenes.

However, 120 members who disagreed with this left the kibbutz to found a new one nearby by the name of Yad Hana Senesh (which was disbanded in 1972).

In 2003 the kibbutz was officially rezoned and popularly renamed Yad Hana-Homesh, when the kibbutz accepted the government's privatization package which included absorbing settlers evicted from Homesh as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan.

Today Yad Hana is a collective suburb, whose main industry is its own commercial real estate development.