Sde Eliezer was founded in 1950 by residents of
Yesod HaMa'ala and
Kiryat Shmona. Jewish immigrants from
Czechoslovakia,
Yugoslavia,
Poland and
Romania also settled there. The moshav was named for
Robert (Eliezer) Rothschild, grandson of
Edmond de Rothschild, founder of the
Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA). According to some sources the village was built on land which had been bought by PICA, while according to
Walid Khalidi, it was established on land that had belonged to the depopulated
Palestinian village of
al-Husayniyya. ==Notable residents==