Tirat Karmel

Tirat Karmel, or Tirat HaCarmel, is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. In 2017 it had a population of 21,256. Throughout the a while, the web site of the modern-day metropolis changed into controlled with the aid of many human beings, consisting of the Romans, the Ottoman and the British. The cutting-edge metropolis changed into established at the site of the Palestinian village of al-Tira. The town of Tirat Carmel changed into formally d a city in 1992. Tirat Carmel is built on the ruins of the town of al-Tira.

Crusaders referred to as it St Yohan de Tire. It was ruled by the Ottomans in late medieval and Renaissance times and become an agricultural area with wheat and goats and other farms. While conscription inside the past due 1800s harmed the metropolis, it recovered, and by means of 1945 turned into an agricultural Muslim community with a Christian minority. The city turned into recognised for production of olives and almonds. In 1949 two absorption facilities have been installed for Jewish immigrants within the identical area, which in 1954 had been reorganized into the municipality of Tirat Carmel.