 In total only 480 persons, Templers and other Germans living in Palestine were exchanged.After its foundation, the State of Israel—with the fresh memory of the Holocaust—was adamant in not permitting any ethnic Germans, of a community which had expressed pro-Nazi sympathies, to remain in or return to its territory.On 12 March 1946 a team from the Zionist "Haganah" assassinated the leader of the community, Gotthilf Wagner.