Soronna, the German Colony outside Jaffa founded by the Templars in the early ’80s, has, by its own request, been included in the jurisdiction of the municipality of Tel-Aviv, the self contained Jewish community.
Soronna’s choice lay between Jewish Tel-Aviv and the municipality of Jaffa, which is predominately Arab, and the Germans chose the former.
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