Kiryat Ata Colony

Kiryat Ata is a "Zionist" colony located east of the coastal city of Haifa. It was established by Zionist immigrants to Palestine in 1925 as a colony on the ruins of the town of Kafr Yata and adjacent to the Palestinian villages of Wa’ra al-Saris, both of which were depopulated as a result of the 1948 war. The colony expanded onto lands confiscated from these villages following the displacement of their inhabitants in April 1948. According to statistics from 2019, the settler population numbered approximately 58,267.   Sources: Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, Israeli sources were used: the settlement’s website in Hebrew / the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. The village of Wa’ra al-Saris is referenced from the Palestine Remembered website.