Its inhabitants were all young, and in World War II the village served as a training camp for the guards and as a glider club.
In the Zebulun Valley, the company purchased the lands of the Arab village "Kofrita" as an agent for a Warsaw religious foundation "Avodat Yisra'el".
[citation needed] The jewel in the crown of the group's activities was the acquisition of a barren piece of land north of Tel Aviv on which the city of Herzliya was founded in 1925.
American Jews who bought land from the company considered it as something between a charitable contribution and an investment for the Messianic age.
In the two largest cities founded by the company, Afula and Herzliya, there are streets bearing the name קהילת ציון (Zion Commonwealth) in commemoration of its achievements.