"Atlit".
Related Topics:Atlit is a small sea side village in Israel near Haifa. The village was founded in 1903 under the auspices of Baron Rothschild. Its population today is about 4,500. Former Knesset member Pesach Gruper, responsible for the construction of a small train station in this village, lives in Atlit.
Atlit was declared a local council in 1950, but ceased to be one in 2004.
Atlit detainee camp was used by the British authorities to detain illegal immigrants to Palestine.
Occasionally, Israeli pop star Shlomo Artzi, who lives in Ein Hod, and Aviv Gefen, also of Ein Hod, have been seen doing their grocery shopping in Atlit.
Atlit borders the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council, with the villages Neve Yam and Ein Carmel in its immediate vicinity.
Atlit was as a fishermen village since the early Bronze Age and up to the Helenistic period.
The ruins Chateau Pelerin - one of the biggest crusader citadels in the Holy Land, and the last remaining crusader outpost to withstand the assaults of Baibars, are still visible on the coast of Atlit.
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