The village was established in 1959 with the assistance of
Jewish Colonisation Association by a
gar'in of
Bnei Akiva members and was named after
Yehuda Leib Maimon, a signatory of the
Israeli declaration of independence and the first
Minister of Religions. In 2005 the village was the site of a non-violent standoff between tens of thousands of protesters against the
Gaza disengagement plan, with police encircling the protesters who had started in
Netivot to stop them from continuing their march to Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. The mass influx of demonstrators overloaded mobile telephone and other services in the small agricultural village. "Lycée Thorani" (lit. 'Torah-based High School'), a bilingual (Hebrew and French) high school, is based in the village. ==References==