On the shores of Atlit stands Atlit Iam, an ancient submerged village from the Neolithic (last period of the Stone Age). Atlit Iam is the oldest known physical evidence of a marine agropastoral subsistence system on the Levantine coast.
In Atlit, records of human populations have been found from the early Bronze Age (period of history in which the metallurgy of this metal was developed, the result of alloying copper with tin, approximately between 3300 and 1200 BC). The Crusaders built Chateau Pelerin, one of the largest citadels in the Holy Land and one of the last outposts of the Crusades to withstand the attacks of the Baibars (Sultan of Egypt). The city was under the control of the Crusaders until 1291 and today the ruins of the citadel are still visible.
In 1880, a census carried out in Western Palestine recorded the existence of a small Arab town of mud houses, with a population of two hundred inhabitants. In 1903, a group of Jewish residents built a nearby town, which they also called Atlit. During the British Mandate of Palestine, both the Arab and Jewish establishments were considered part of the same community; By 1938, there were 508 Arabs and 224 Jews. The Arab presence declined in the 1940s due to land sales, so that by mid-decade there were only 150 Arabs living there (90 Muslims and 60 Christians) along with two thousand Jews. The circumstances under which the remaining Arabs abandoned the territories in 1948 are not known.
Atlit was declared a local Council in 1950, but in 2004 it was incorporated into the Costa del Carmelo Regional Council along with other population centers in the area.
British authorities used the Atlit detention camp to detain Jewish immigrants heading to Palestine. Today, the site is a museum dedicated to the Ha'apala (code name given to the illegal immigration of Jews to British Mandate Palestine, in violation of Jewish immigration restrictions imposed by the British, between 1934 and 1948). and XNUMX). In the vicinity of the town there is an Israeli naval command.
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Interesting article, I have 2 questions; In the 19th century the area was Western Palestine? (its inhabitants would be Palestinians????) question 2: It is not known how the last Arab residents left?????