Sde Eliezer

Sde Eliezer (Hebrew: שְׂדֵה אֱלִיעֶזֶר, lit. Eliezer's Field) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 891.^[1]

Sde Eliezer שְׂדֵה אֱלִיעֶזֶר‎
Orchards of Sde Eliezer
Sde Eliezer
Coordinates: 33°2′43″N 35°33′50″E
Country	Israel
District	Northern
Council	Mevo'ot HaHermon
Affiliation	HaOved HaTzioni
Founded	1950
Population  (2022)[1]	891

History

Sde Eliezer was founded in 1950 by residents of Yesod HaMa'ala and Kiryat Shmona. Jewish immigrants from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland and Romania also settled there. The moshav was named for Robert (Eliezer) Rothschild, grandson of Edmond de Rothschild, founder of the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA).^[2]

According to some sources the village was built on land which had been bought by PICA,^[3][4] while according to Walid Khalidi, it was established on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Husayniyya.^[5]

Notable residents

• Eliezer Marom

References

1. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
2. About Moshav Sde Eliezer
3. Avi Har-Shagai (1990) The Encyclopedia of Local Government in Israel: Regional Councils, p243
4. Mordechai, Assaf (11 October 2009). "מושב שדה אליעזר, גליל עליון" [Moshav Sde Eliyahu, Upper Galilee]. Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 1 May 2019.
5. Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains:The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies. p. 457. ISBN 0-88728-224-5.