Beit Elazari

{{Short description|Moshav in central Israel}} {{Infobox Israel village |name= Beit El'azari |image= Beit Elazari Aerial View.jpg |caption= |imgsize= 250 |hebname={{Script/Hebrew|בֵּית אֶלְעָזָרִי}} |arname= |stdHeb= |altOffSp= |altUnoSp= |meaning= House of El'azari |founded= 1948 |founded_by= {{nowrap|Eastern European immigrants}} |country = {{ISR}} |district= center |region= |council= Brenner |affiliation= Moshavim Movement |popyear = {{Israel populations|Year}} |population = {{Israel populations|Bet El'azari}} |population_footnotes={{Israel populations|reference}} |area_dunam= |pushpin_map=Israel center ta#Israel |pushpin_mapsize= 250 |pushpin_label_position= |coordinates = {{coord|31|50|37|N|34|48|15|E|display=inline,title}} |website = {{URL|www.beitelazari.co.il}} }}

'''Beit El'azari''' ({{langx|he|בֵּית אֶלְעָזָרִי}}, lit. ''House of El'azari''; {{langx|ar|بيت إلعزاري}}) is a moshav in central Israel. Located three miles south of the city of Rehovot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Brenner Regional Council. In {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Bet El'azari}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

==History== It was founded in 1948 by Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, on the site of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Maghar.<ref>{{cite book|title=All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_By7AAAAIAAJ |first1=Walid|last1=Khalidi|author-link=Walid Khalidi|year=1992|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies|isbn=0-88728-224-5|page=395}}</ref> Initially named Arugot ({{langx|he|ערוגות}}), it was later renamed Ekron HaHadasha ({{langx|he|עקרון החדשה}}, lit. ''New Ekron''), and finally Beit El'azari in memory of the agronomist Yitzhak Elazari Volcani, founder of modern agriculture in Israel.<ref name=mapa>{{Cite book | publisher = Mapa Publishing | isbn = 965-7184-34-7 |editor-first=Yuval |editor-last=El'azari | title = Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel | location = Tel-Aviv | year = 2005 | page = 64 |language=he}}</ref>

==Notable people== Avraham Zilberberg, MK<ref>[https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=409 Avraham Zilberberg: Public Activities] Knesset website</ref>

==See also== *Agricultural research in Israel *Benjamin Elazari Volcani

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.beitelazari.co.il/ Moshav website] {{in lang|he}}

{{Brenner Regional Council}} {{Authority control}}

Category:Moshavim Category:Populated places established in 1948 Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel) Category:1948 establishments in Israel