Beit El'azari (, lit. ''House of El'azari''; ) is a
moshav
A moshav (, plural ', "settlement, village") is a type of Israeli village or town or Jewish settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 and 1 ...
in central Israel. Located three miles south of the city of
Rehovot
Rehovot (, / ) is a city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of .
Etymology
Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu (movement), Bilu movement, proposed the name "Rehovot ...
, it falls under the jurisdiction of
Brenner Regional Council
Brenner Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Azorit Brenner''; ), is a regional council in the Central District of Israel. It is located in the westernmost portion of the Shephelah, in the vicinity of Rehovot and Yavne. The council is named after wri ...
. In it had a population of .
History
It was founded in 1948 by
Jewish immigrants from
eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the Europe, European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic connotations. Its eastern boundary is marked by the Ural Mountain ...
, on the site of the depopulated
Palestinian
Palestinians () are an Arab ethnonational group native to the Levantine region of Palestine.
*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
village of
al-Maghar
Al-Maghar was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine. It was depopulated by the Givati Brigade during Operation Barak on 18 May 1948. It was located 12 km southwest of Ramla, situated north of Wadi al-Magha ...
. Initially named Arugot (), it was later renamed Ekron HaHadasha (, lit. ''New
Ekron
Ekron (Philistine: 𐤏𐤒𐤓𐤍 ''*ʿAqārān'', , ), in the Hellenistic period known as Accaron () was at first a Canaanite, and later more famously a Philistine city, one of the five cities of the Philistine Pentapolis, located in pr ...
''), and finally Beit El'azari in memory of the agronomist
Yitzhak Elazari Volcani, founder of modern
agriculture in Israel
Agriculture in Israel is a highly developed industry. Israel is an exporter of fresh produce and a leader in Agricultural research In Israel, agricultural technologies. The southern one-half of Israel is desert and irrigation is required for grow ...
.
Notable people
Avraham Zilberberg, MK
Avraham Zilberberg: Public Activities
Knesset website
See also
*Agricultural research in Israel
Agricultural research in Israel is based on close cooperation and interaction between scientists, consultants, farmers and agriculture-related industries. Israel's climate ranges from Mediterranean (Csa) to semi-arid and arid. Shortage of irrigatio ...
*Benjamin Elazari Volcani
Benjamin Elazari Volcani (; born 4 January 1915, died 1 February 1999) was an Israeli microbiologist who discovered life in the Dead Sea and pioneered biological silicon research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of Cali ...
References
External links
Moshav website
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Moshavim
Populated places established in 1948
Populated places in Central District (Israel)
1948 establishments in Israel