Allone Abba Attractions

Allone Abba, 25km/15mi southeast of Haifa, is a moshav which was originally established by German settlers. It is reached on a road which turns left off the road to Nazareth 4km/2.5mi south of Qiryat Tivon. Originally called Waldheim, the settlement was founded in 1908 by members of the German Society of the Temple, who lived by farming, selling their produce in Haifa. The Germans were evacuated by the British authorities during the Second World War and the place was taken over by Israeli settlers. It was then renamed Allone Abba, after Abba Bardishev, who was dropped behind the German lines during the Second World War as a saboteur but was captured and executed. Some of the buildings of the original settlement have been restored, and the church has become the cultural center of the moshav.