 It is the headquarters of the Galilee Division of the Israel Defense Forces, and is located around a kilometre from the Lebanese border between Sasa and Netu'a.It is located on the land of the Palestinian village of Al-Mansura, which was depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.Biranit was planned as the hub of a group of settlements established by the Central Galilee Development Project in the 1960s.