What happened after the sale of Abraham’s Vineyard?
In April 1933, exactly a decade after the sale of the Abraham’s Vineyard (AV) property in Jerusalem in April 1932, Sir Leon Levison, the President of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance (IHCA), had transferred money to the Mayor of Gaza, Fahmy Bey El-Husseini (a lawyer), for the purchase of 2,000 dunams within the Gaza Strip. The land bought was exclusively designated for the establishment of a colony for Jewish Yeshua-believers in Eretz-Israel, then called Palestine.
The colony project was quickly publicized by The Palestine Post (April 25, 1933, p. 5) under the heading ‘Hebrew Christians Plan Colony in Palestine.’ Eventually, however, the Gaza deal failed and was not materialized. The Arab seller of the land deceived the buyers and not a small amount of money was lost. Long legal litigations, carried out between Britain and Palestine, followed. These didn’t only cost a fortune, but also had exhausted the energy...
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