Waldheim (Alonei Abba) Alonei Abba was formerly known as Waldheim (German: “Forest Home”), a colony founded in 1907 by German Christians affiliated with the Prussian evangelical church on land purchased from the fellaheen village of ...
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Sarona
Sarona – a Templer Village When founded in August 1871 by a group of pious Christians who came from southern Germany German called Templers, Sarona (named after the Plains of Sharon) ...
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The American – German Colony, Jaffa Imagine, in 1966, one year after the American Civil War ended, a group of 157 Christians members of the Church of the Messiah, men, ...
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