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Beit Elazari (Hebrew: בית אלעזרי, lit. House of Elazari) 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 2007 it had a population of 1,200.
It was founded in 1948 by immigrants from eastern Europe, on the site of the deserted Palestinian village of Al-Mughar. Initially named Arugot (Hebrew: ערוגות), it was later renamed Ekron HaHadasha (Hebrew: עקרון החדשה, lit. New Ekron) and then to its current name after the agronomist Yitzhak Elazari-Volcani, the founder of modern agriculture in Israel.[1]
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- ^ (2005) Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel, Yuval Elʻazari (ed.), Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing, p. 64. ISBN 9657184347. (Hebrew)
Coordinates: 31°50′36.95″N 34°48′15.47″E / 31.8435972, 34.8042972
