Beit Ezra

Beit Ezra
Beit Ezra
Coordinates: 31°44′11.75″N 34°39′20.52″E / 31.7365972°N 34.6557000°ECoordinates: 31°44′11.75″N 34°39′20.52″E / 31.7365972°N 34.6557000°E
District	Southern
Council	Be'er Tuvia
Affiliation	Moshavim Movement
Founded	1950
Founded by	Iraqi immigrants
Population (2014)[1]	1,103

Beit Ezra (Hebrew: בֵּית עֶזְרָא, lit. House of Ezra) is a moshav in southern Israel. Located between Ashdod and Ashkelon on the Israeli coastal plain, it falls under the jurisdiction of Be'er Tuvia Regional Council. In 2014 it had a population of 1,103.

History

The moshav was founded in 1950 by immigrants from Iraq on the ruins of Hamama and was named after Ezra.^[2] South of the moshav is Hill 69, which served as a military post and was the scene of fighting during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Also nearby is the Ad Halom bridge at which the Egyptian army was stopped during their advance towards Tel Aviv.

References

1. 2014 populations Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
2. Mapa's concise gazetteer of Israel (in Hebrew). Yuval Elʻazari (ed.). Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishing. 2005. p. 75. ISBN 965-7184-34-7.