Shavei Tzion

Shavei Zion (Hebrew שבי ציון on German returnees to Zion, alternative spellings in German " Shavei Tsion ", " Schawej Zion ", " Shavei Zion ," etc.) is a village on the northern Mediterranean coast of Israel, in the northern region between the towns of Nahariya and Acre with approximately 850 inhabitants.

The moshav was founded on April 13, 1938 in Palestine dating from the Swabian Rexingen Jews as tower and stockade settlement, who escaped the Holocaust later by " emigration ".

In Shavei Zion, the actress and singer Daliah Lavi was born in 1942. The poet, writer and Chawer Leopold Marx from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt lived according to the aliyah ( immigration) there and wrote his life in German. Also the Chawer Pinchas Erlanger lived and worked since his aliyah life in Shavei Zion.

Friendship cities

• Stuttgart ( Germany )