 The kibbutz founders, working at moshavim in the area at the time, came in the second and third Aliyahs.They joined together in 1920 to establish Degania Gimel south of Degania Bet, at a site later used by kibbutz Beit Zera.From here they needed to move due to a lack of land, and so they arrived at Ginegar, which is believed to be a distortion of "Nagnager", a village in the Galilee cited in the Talmud.