sentences:  In it had a population of .The kibbutz was established on 29 May 1948 by Hashomer Hatzair members from Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Manshiyya, north of the village site, and also incorporated some land from al-Sumayriyya.Some of the founders had fought with the partisan forces against the Nazis in Europe, while the majority came out of various Nazi concentration camps.