Elazar, Gush Etzion

Elazar, Gush Etzion

Elazar ( _he. אֶלְעָזָר) is an Israeli settlement in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank, 18 kilometers south of Jerusalem. A religious communal settlement, it has around 350 families living in it.

The settlement was established in 1975 as a moshav by a core group of religious Jewish academics who had emigrated from the United States. The settlement was named for the Maccabi Eleazar Horan, brother of the Maccabean leader Judas Maccabeus who was killed at the Battle of Beth-zechariah in 162 BC adjacent to the settlement's location.

Various farming and industrial activities provide employment within the settlement, but most of the residents work in Jerusalem.

External links

* [http://www.elazar.org.il/ Elazar website]


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