Mount Hope, Jaffa: Difference between revisions

On January 11, 1858, five Arabs attacked the farm. They murdered Friedrich Steinbeck and raped his wife Marie and her mother Sarah Dickson. Modern Israeli scholars contend that the attack was motivated by jealousy rather than nationalism.<ref name="Friedman 2018" /> The Ottoman authorities arrested four of the assailants and sentenced them to life imprisonment. In June 1858, the farm's remaining residents left the colony and emigrated to the United States. Following the news of the attack, the German [[Templers (religious believers)|Templer]] community decided to postpone their arrival in Palestine.<ref name="Friedman 2018" />