 In its population was ; its area is around 5,000 dunams (5 km2).Bitzaron was founded in 1935, on JNF lands, with the help of Keren Hayesod.In a book about Jewish villages in Palestine, the JNF says that the founders of Bitzaron organized themselves in 1929 before settling on the land as the Tel Hai group, and that in 1947 the population was 175.