The District of al-Ramla

Sarafand al-Kharaba

Yad Eli’ezer established in the early 1950s, is on village land. It was named after Eliezer Margolin, a commander of the British army’s Jewish Legion during the World War I who, disobeying orders, allowed his troops to use British weapons from the military base in Sarafand al-‘Amar against Palestinian nationalists in 1921. A major part of the village has been destroyed. Many houses, however, remain; Israeli families occupy some of them. Israeli students use the school. The cemetery is overgrown with cactus plants.