The moshav was established in 1982 by former residents of Talmei Yosef, an Israeli settlement in Sinai. The original settlement's residents were evacuated as a result of the Camp David Accords, and re-settled in Israel, naming their new settlement after their previous one (after Yosef Weitz, a former director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund).[2]
In May 2015 Jewish National Fund Belgium established a green landscaping project around the local synagogue in memory of Yilona Nejszaten, one of the "hidden children" of the Holocaust.[3]
In 2005 a moshav resident opened an educational farm called the "Salad Trail."[4] Visitors see how Israel's agricultural technologies allow over 80 different crops, primarily fruits and vegetables, to grow in the desert soil – without pesticides.[5][6]
^Tal, Alon (Spring 2007). "To Make a Desert Bloom: The Israeli Agricultural Adventure and the Quest for Sustainability". Agricultural History. 81 (2): 228–257. doi:10.3098/ah.2007.81.2.228. JSTOR4617826. S2CID144799795.
