Moshava Ben Shemen– The land of Ben Shemen was bought in 1904 by the Anglo Palestine Bank and was transferred to the Jewish National Fund in 1907, thus becoming one of its first holdings in the country. Ten Yemenite families were settled at Ben Shemen in 1911 to combine farming with arts and crafts in the style of the Bezalel School of Jerusalem. In 1921 one of the first moshavim was founded at Ben Shemen. In 1927 an agricultural school was opened.