Ein Carmel Colony

Ein Carmel is a kibbutz located near Atlit, established on the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Mazar in the Haifa Subdistrict. The kibbutz was founded in 1950 by former settlers of Ein Hayam and Ramat Rachel. The founding charter of the settlement was signed at the end of the 1948 ethnic cleansing war by four adults and two children from each of the settler groups. The kibbutz is located approximately one kilometer from the former Palestinian village of al-Mazar, whose residents were displaced during the fighting of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Although most of the village’s inhabitants fled in May 1948, the village was ultimately destroyed during a military operation in mid-July. Some of the homes of Ein Carmel were built on land that belonged to the village. As of 2021, the number of settlers in Ein Carmel was 930. Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic-language sources, we relied on Israeli sources: the Hebrew-language website of the settlement and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Information on the village of al-Mazar was obtained from the  website.