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he northern-most settlement in Israel was founded in 1896 by Baron Edmund de Rothschild for Jewish settlers who were previously settled in the Golan in Syria. There was no post office in the Colony and mail was carried to the Lebanese village El Djeida, where it received the district postmark of Merdjaoun (the Ayun Valley). From there the mail traveled to the Port of Sidon and by sea to Jaffa if addressed to a Palestine location. Very few examples of mail to and from Metulla have survived.
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| May 9, 1913. Postcard from Metulla posted at Merdjaoun addressed to the Colony Sejera, Nazareth, Palestine. Nasra (Nazareth) in Arabic at the top. Hebrew cachet "Metulla Emek Ayoun" (Metulla the Ayoun Valley). The only known example. Postcard traveled by land to Sidon, than by sea to Jaffa and by land to Nazareth. | |
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