Kibbutz Sa'ad was founded on June 30th, 1947 as the first kibbutz belonging to the Bnei Akiva movement, and as part of the Religious Kibbutz Organization. Kibbutz Sa'ad is located in the Northern Negev region. During the 1948 War of Independence, the area where the Sa'ad pioneers had set up their new kibbutz outpost was almost entirely destroyed by enemy attack. Today about 700 People live in the Kibbutz Sa'ad.