Kibbutz Shaar Hagolan was founded in Rishon Letzion in 1930, by two groups from Poland and Czechoslovakia as a Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz - Ein Hakore'. In March 1937, after seven years in Rishon, the kibbutz settled permanently here in the Jordan Valley, as part of the Tower and Stockade movement. It is situated close to the Yarmuk River, at the meeting point of the Jordanian and Syrian borders – facing the Golan. The name chosen for our kibbutz was Shaar Hagolan –"The gateway to the Golan".

The Six Days War (1967) removed the Syrian threat from the Golan Heights but soon came days and nights of shelling from the Jordanian border, and danger of mines in the fields and roads. Shelters were built next to the children's houses and the children spent their nights in these shelters. After the Yom Kippur War (October 1973), we had relatively much calmer years, though the border with Jordan has remained volatile and tense.