Givat Brenner was founded in 1928 by
Enzo Sereni and a group of immigrants from
Lithuania,
Poland and
Germany. That same year, pioneers had settled on some 200
dunams (49.4 acres) of land that had been purchased by
Moshe Smilansky from the Arab landholders of
Aqir and
Zarnuqa. During
World War II, Givat Brenner supplied products such as jam to the
British Army, which laid the foundation for its export business. File:קיבוץ גבעת-ברנר בראשיתו-JNF022265.jpeg|Givat Brenner 1928 File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Kibbutz Givat Brener.jpg|Kibbutz Givat Brenner, 1935 File:Givat Brenner factory.jpg|Food canning factory, Givat Brenner, 1939 File:El Ramle 1945.jpg|Givat Brenner 1945 1:250,000 File:Rehovot 1948.jpg|Givat Brenner 1:20,000 File:Giv'at Brenner.jpg|Members of Company H,
Palmach, in Giv'at Brenner, 1945 The establishment of an irrigation equipment factory led to the creation of a
foundry. The foundry evolved into a specialized aluminum die-casting company, which has produced, among other things, the housings for emergency phones along the
New Jersey Turnpike. In 1938, it opened the first kibbutz sanatorium in the country. ==Demographics==