Mishmar HaYarden

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Mishmar HaYarden

Mishmar HaYarden is a moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
in the Upper Galilee

Upper Galilee

The Upper Galilee is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, its borders being the Litani river in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Beit HaKerem valley and Lower Galilee in the south...
in northern Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It belongs to the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council

Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council

Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council is a Regional Council in the North District . It encompasses 13 Moshavim and Communal settlement , from the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, to the Lebanon border and Mount Hermon....
. It is located on Highway 91

Highway 91 (Israel)

Highway 91 is an east-west highway in northern Israel. It extends through the Jordan Rift Valley and the central Golan Heights. It begins in the west at Mahanayim junction with Highway 90 , and it ends in the east at Zivan junction near Ein Zivan, where it meets Highway 98 ....
between Mahanayim

Mahanayim

Mahanayim is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located around three kilometres north-east of Rosh Pina, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council....
and Gadot

Gadot

Gadot is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 381....
.

It was founded in the 1950s. It was named after Mishmar HaYarden (moshava), a destroyed settlement far away from this moshav, and unrelated to it.

The original name was "Bnei Tzfat" because the founding nucleus supported the people of Safed

Safed

Safed is a city in the North District of Israel of Israel and a center for Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism. At an elevation of 800 meters above sea level, Safed is the highest city in the Galilee....
(Tzfat) and respected them for planning in the 1870s to establish moshavot in the Bashan

Bashan

Bashan is a biblical place first mentioned in , where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his Confederation "smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim," where Og the monarch of Bashan had his residence....
, including the old Bnei Yehuda.

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