"Villama"

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Hamîdije Wilhelma was a temporal colony on the coast of Judea, about 7.5 kilometers north of Lod, and about 2 kilometers east of the Jewish Arab town (the city of Yahud), which was founded in 1902 by German Templars. In 1948, the Hebrew seat was established.

History of History
The colony was named after Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and named after two kings named Wilhelm II, King of Whittberg (1848-1921), as an honor of his conceptual and financial support for the Templar settlement, many of which came from the Kingdom of Whartemberg, Wilm II, Emperor of Germany, in memory of his visit to Israel in 1898.
This visit markedly, in the view of the Templars, the friendship that was built between the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire in those days, and therefore was called the colony during the Ottoman government of Villama-Hamiya.

The colony was built around two ways that created a cross form. One road, 1,200 meters long, continued northeast of the south-west, and its side buildings were built, 26 houses on each side. In the back of each house was a piece of land in the width of 40 meters and 250 meters. The second way, which crossed the first in the middle, connected Villama to the nearby communities.

On November 21, 1917, the British army seized the colony and exiled its residents to Egypt. After World War I, the exiles were allowed to return to the colony. A notorious man who visited the colony during World War I was Rudolf Hes, commander of the Auschwitz camp. He was wounded on the front of the Middle East several times and hospitalized here as a bomb. The event is described in his memoirs written before his execution in Poland in 1947.

Wolf Vilnai wrote in the Israel Guide (1941:

The airport in which the British built in 1934 near the colony based on an improvised landing route that the residents of the colony were called the "Arma Airport", later Lud Airport, and later, Ben-Gurion Airport.

During World War II, the colony became the extradition camp for its German residents under the supervision of Jewish police officers and the command of British officers.
In 1946, the Palmach men in the life of Gottalf Wagner, resident of the place and active in the Nazi Party.
According to the partition plan, the colony was intended to become part of the Jewish state. The British may have been afraid of the lives of the residents and therefore decided to turn the population of Villama even before the end of the Mandate. On April 20, 1948, all residents were transferred to Haifa and sent to Cyprus, and later they were exiled to Australia. After the evacuation of the residents, the settlement became a British military camp, and at the end of the Mandate, the British army transferred control instead of the Jordanian Legion.

In Operation Danny, Villama was conquered by the forces of the 8th Brigade and the Alexandrian Brigade, and began in August 1948 to settle in refugee groups from Jewish communities evacuated during the War of Independence:
The seat phonies from the Jerusalem area, which is located on May 16, 1948.
From the pony of the settlement, “conditions” from the color of the Galilee in which the blocs were formed, this group was called “Valma B”. In 1952, the group established the colony of streams in the new permanent place about 4 miles north of the villa.
From the Pony kibbutz in the wells of Isaac (which was next to Gaza and was destroyed in the war) this group was called "Villama G" in 1952, the wells of Isaac were established in the new permanent place of about a mile north of the villa, on its land.
The remaining pony will return from the Upper Galilee, which is evacuated by its inhabitants due to the severe shells of the Syrians.
From the pony of the colony, Yasakov, who is north of Jerusalem and faces together with the neighboring “cradles” people.

Instead, there remained a pamphlet who called him for their settlement called the Sons of Derks. They joined a large group of kibbutz leaves and a number of families from a fat stone. Most of the houses of Villam