Yiftah was founded on 18 August 1948 by
demobilised Palmach soldiers who were members of the
Yiftach Brigade, after which the kibbutz is named. Yiftah is located near the
depopulated Palestinian Arab village of
Jahula, but on the land belonging to the
archaeological site of
Tel Kedesh.
Metzudat Koach is located nearby. During the
Gaza war, northern Israeli border communities, including Yiftah, faced targeted attacks by
Hezbollah and
Palestinian factions based in
Southern Lebanon, and were evacuated. On 5 November 2023, a driver operating an Israeli water tank for the
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) was killed by an
anti-tank missile launched by Hezbollah operatives near the kibbutz. On 19 December, Hezbollah fired artillery shells at Yiftah. File:Yiftah ii.jpg|Yiftah under construction, 1948 File:Yiftah.jpg|Opening of dining hall with
Mount Hermon in distance, 1948 File:Yiftah vi.jpg|Houses in Yiftah, 1949 File:120474 kibbutz yiftah PikiWiki Israel.jpg|Workshop for agricultural tools in Yiftah, 1949 File:102370 kibbutz yiftah will open PikiWiki Israel.jpg|Yiftah fields, 1952 File:102383 kibbutz yiftah will open PikiWiki Israel.jpg|Dining hall of Yiftah, 1952 ==References==