Tirat Carmel

Tirat Carmel, formerly Ṭīrat el Lōz, (Hebrew: טִירַת כַּרְמֶל, Arabic: طيرة اللوز‎), or Tirat HaCarmel or Al-Tira, Haifa, is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 18,700.

Throughout the ages, the site of the modern city was controlled by many people, including the Romans, the Ottoman and the British. The modern city was established on the site of the Arab village of al-Tira.

The town of Tirat Carmel was officially declared a city in 1992.

History

See also Al-Tira, Haifa

Tirat Carmel is built on the ruins of the town of al-Tira. Crusaders called it St Yohan de Tire. It was ruled by the Ottomans in late medieval and Renaissance times and was an agricultural area with wheat and goats and other farms. While conscription in the late 1800s harmed the town, it recovered, and by 1945 was an agricultural Muslim community with a Christian minority. The town was known for production of olives and almonds.