Tel Te'omim is a communal settlement

Communal settlement (Israel)

A community settlement is a type of town in Israel. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the town's residents, who are organized in a cooperative, can veto a sale of a house or a business to an undesirable buyer....

 in the Beit She'an valley in northern Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Located about 6 km south of Beit She'an, just east of Highway 90, it falls under the jurisdiction of Valley of Springs Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 362.

History

The village was founded in 1982 as an expansion of the three other moshavim in its vicinity: Revaya

Revaya

Revaya is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It belongs to the Valley of Springs Regional Council. It is located about 6 km south of Beit She'an, near Sde Trumot, west of Israel Highway 90....

, Rehov

Rehov

Rehov , meaning "broad", "wide place", was an important Bronze and Iron Age city located at Tel Rehov , an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, approximately 5 km south of Beit She'an and 3 km west of the Jordan River...

, and Sde Trumot

Sde Trumot

Sde Trumot is a moshav in the Beit She'an Valley in northern Israel. It is located about 7 km south of Beit She'an, and Israel Highway 90 passes through it...

. Together these four settlements are combined in the "Bikurah" bloc. The population of Tel Te'omim is mostly composed of people who originally lived in the other three moshavim.

The name "Tel Te'omim", which means "twin hills" or the "hill of twins", is associated with a pair of nearby hills of archeological interest.