An exhibition was organized in 2008 to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Shavei Zion community in northern Israel. It was shown in Rexingen, Shavei Zion, Jerusalem, Berlin, Stuttgart, Freudental, and Tuttlingen, and has found its permanent home in the former synagogue in Rexingen.

With the support of Jewish organizations in Germany and Palestine, ten families and a few unmarried young men succeeded in organizing the only group emigration of a Jewish community from Nazi Germany.

They were joined by families from other Swabian communities and from all over Germany. On April 13, 1938, the first barracks and a protective fence were erected in a single day, and the Shavei Zion settlement was founded.

After the first year as a walled and towered settlement, the immigrants succeeded in establishing successful agriculture in Shavei Zion. They had already established their organizational form as a moshav shitufi in Rexingen, thereby creating a cooperative model that was subsequently emulated by many others. In preparation for the State of Israel and the reception of refugees, Shavei Zion, along with the other Jewish settlements in the western Galilee, was an important pillar of democratic Israel. After the founding of the state, it became a popular resort.

The German-Hebrew exhibition, which was developed jointly by citizens of Shavei Zion and Rexingen, shows the dramatic history of this group emigration, the founding of Shavei Zion, and the early years of the community up to the 21st century.

Using Shavei Zion as an example, the exhibition documents the history of Israel's creation and its relations with Germany.