The German airship LZ127 Graf Zeppelin was in service from 1928 to 1937. Two of it's 590 flights were over Jerusalem. The first occurred on March 26, 1929. It was a night flight, during which they dropped mail into the German colony at Jaffa. The second flight, pictured above, was from Cairo on April 11, 1931. The ship hovered above the Church of Holy Sepulchre for several minutes.
reprinted from May 2011
ADDENDUM OCTOBER 2023: Clouds over Jerusalem.
Those events happened before 1948 when Jerusalem was still in the British mandate of Palestine, a result of the British and French carving up of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. The antisemitism of the German government of the time did not affect these flyovers.
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