History
Ein HaShofet was first settled on 5 July 1937 with the settlers living on the nearby hill of Joara for one year before moving to the final and current location of the kibbutz. Prior to the settling at Joara, the kibbutz's founders stayed for five years in Hadera, where the group was created by joining two Hashomer Hatzair groups, one from Poland (including Aharon Efrat, later a member of the Knesset) and one from North America, consisting the first Hashomer Hatzair group from North America. The kibbutz's foundation was a part of the Tower and stockade settlement drive.
The area was used by Arab "gangs" and the settlers had to defend themselves against armed attacks on a nightly basis. This was in the middle of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, known to the Jews of the time as the "disturbances."
Despite a lack of water and hilly difficult reclamation, ten years later, with a population of 450, they "were a successful mixed hill farm with orchards, dry cereals, dairy products, sheep herding and chicken farming.".
During the Israel's War of Independence the settlers help to defeat Kaukji's forces after their April 1948 attack on Mishmar Haemek.
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