At the beginning of World War II colonists with German citizenship were rounded up by the British authorities and sent, together with Italian and Hungarian enemy aliens, to internment camps in Waldheim and Bethlehem of Galilee.Adi Schwartz, The nine lives of the Lorenz Cafe , Haaretz, January 20, 2008. On July 31, 1941, 661 Templers and other Germans in Palestine were deported to Australia via Egypt, leaving behind 345 in Palestine.Ben-Yehuda 1992. Political Assassinations by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice. SUNY Press. . Likewise the British authorities declared the Templers enemy nationals, arresting and deporting many them to Australia. During the war the British government brokered the exchange of about 1,000 Templers for 550 Jews under German control. These Jews were mostly Palestinian or residents with relatives in Palestine.
