 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.A second wave of residents, including recently demobilized soldiers and their families arrived shortly after the 1947–1949 Palestine war.They were settled along a road, called Soldiers' Street, running west from the center of the moshav.