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Tirat Carmel Colony

  • nakba memory museum
  • Nov 5, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 19

Tirat Carmel, formerly known as  ("Tira of the Almonds"), is a settlement located in the Haifa area. It was established in 1949 on land that belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Tira. According to statistics from 2014, the settlement had a population of 18,854 settlers. Its total area is 5,601 dunums. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, Jews and non-Arabs constituted 99.6% of the population. By 2019, the number of settlers had increased to 22,210. Sources: Due to the limited availability of Arabic-language sources, we relied on Israeli sources, including the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Information on the village of al-Tira was taken from the  website.

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