Located about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, between Ashdod, Gedera and Yavne, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gederot Regional Council.

[2] It was named after Mordechai Eliash (1892-1950), who was born in Ukraine, educated at universities in Berlin and Oxford, immigrated to Palestine in 1919, was a lawyer and the first Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom.

In the sixties, many orchards and plantations were planted and a small part of the residents found their livelihood outside the village.

In order to increase the sources of income, the members of the village opened a camp for learning English in the summer months.

A small part of the villagers are still engaged in agriculture, which mainly includes orchards and chicken coops.