The 1860 Nahariya Colony: Palestine's Forgotten Jewish Settlement

This episode uncovers the story of Gei Oni, a small agricultural colony established in 1860 near Safed by a group of Jewish families from Safed and Tiberias, nearly two decades before the First Aliyah. We explore how these pioneers struggled with rocky soil, Ottoman land laws, and eventual abandonment, and how their land became part of a larger pattern of early Zionist settlement in Palestine. The episode highlights the role of the Montefiore Trust, the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and the challenges of Jewish land ownership under the Tanzimat reforms. We also examine the colony's ruins and its rediscovery by later settlers, shedding light on a forgotten chapter in the history of Jewish settlement in Palestine before the modern Zionist movement.

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