Olga Hankin was reputed to be a brave woman, who would ride alone on horseback, even at night, to perform as a midwife for women, whether Jewish or Arab.

She believed that women should have a profession; before immigrating to the Land of Israel she was a telegrapher on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to save money for her tuition to study midwifery.

"[14] Olga joined a group of young Jews influenced by the nationalist awakening in Europe, who despaired of universal and socialist ideals and believed they would never attain equal rights in Russia.

They formed a Zionist movement which they named Bilu, whose primary goal was the agricultural settlement of the Land of Israel.

[16] The neighborhood originally consisted of one house on the top of a cliff by the Binyamin Bay on the Mediterranean coast, built but never lived in by the Hankins.

It was built, in Bauhaus style, as a security house following the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 and overlooks the lands of the coastal plain purchased by the Hankins in the 1920s and 1930s.