Nahariya is the product of a utopian vision, a tentative to create a new way of life in the north of Erez Israel that relied heavily on agriculture. Its Mediterranean beach was already an attraction in the 1930s for locals but also among British officers and their families. Given Nahariya's location on the Mediterranean renting out rooms was more lucrative than farming. German Jews fleeing the Nazi regime made up the bulk of the settlers. The idea was that each family live from a 6,000-9,000 square metre area of land. Some 55,000 German Jews escaped to Israel in the 1930s.The UN partition plan from November 1947 divided the land into a Jewish and an Arabic state. Nahariya fell under the Arabic State. The settlers in Nahariya were asked by many Jews if they were not worried about this fact. The answer given in German was: whether Jewish or Arabic, we don’t care, we will remain Germans!