Talmei Elazar

Talmei Elazar (Hebrew: תַּלְמֵי אֶלְעָזָר, lit. 'Elazar Furrows' or 'Elazar Ridge') is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the eastern Sharon plain to the north-east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In 2022 it had a population of 931.^[1]

Before the existence of Talmei Elazar, the Palestinian village of Khirbat al-Sarkas stood at this location. In 1948, Khirbat al-Sarkas had a population of 751, and 156 houses. On April 15th, 1948, during the Nakba, the inhabitants of Kirbat al-Sarkas were ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces, with its entire population forced to flee. Many of the refugees ended up in the Tulkarm area, where some of their descendants still live today. Khirbat al-Sarkas's land was subsequently seized by Talmei Elazar, as well as by the kibbutz Gan Shmuel.^[2]

The village was established in 1952 by residents of Zikhron Ya'akov and Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Iran on the land to the west of depopulated Palestinian village of Khirbat al-Sarkas,^[3] and was named after Elazar Warmassar, one of the heads of the PJCA.^[4]

One of the residents runs a health and beauty span that offers snake massages. She uses California and Florida king snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes, claiming that contact with these reptiles is stress-relieving.^[5]

Located on the outskirts of the moshav is a carnivorous plant nursery where various species of plants are grown, among them the Nepenthes, which can capture frogs and even birds.^[6]