Ben-Ezer family

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The Ben-Ezer family is a Jewish pioneering family, one of the founding families of Petah Tikva, which was the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in Ottoman Palestine, nicknamed the Mother of Settlements.

[edit] Origin of Family and Name

The family's original name was Raab and originates from the Rába river in Hungary where they lived prior to their emigration to the Land of Israel in the 1850s. The head of the family was Eliezer Raab and the local Arabs called his sons Awlad-Ezer or Ibn-Ezer in honor of their father Eliezer. Following his death, his children decided to make the name official and collectively changed their last name to Ben-Ezer (sons of Ezer in Hebrew).