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. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertford, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...

Neighborhoods in Atlit include Neve Moshe, Yamit, and Rilf.

Atlit detainee camp was used by the British authorities to detain illegal immigrants to Palestine. In the 1930s and 1940s, Atlit detainee camp was used by the British authorities to detain illegal immigrants to Palestine. ... Map of the British Mandate of 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. Shlomo Artzis Ahavtihem CD cover Shlomo Artzi (Hebrew: שלמה ארצי) is a famous Israeli singer and composer. ...

Prehistoric settlement

Atlit was as a fishermen village since the early Bronze Age and up to the Helenistic period. The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ...

Crusader citadel

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. The Crusader states, c. ... The phrase The Holy Land (Arabic الأرض المقدسة, al-Arḍ ul-Muqaddasah; Hebrew ארץ הקודש: Standard Hebrew Éreẓ haQodeš, Tiberian Hebrew ʾÉreṣ haqQāḏēš; Latin Terra Sancta) generally refers to Israel, otherwise known as Palestine (sometimes including Jordan, Syria and parts of Egypt). ... al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari (also spelled Baybars) (1223 – July 1, 1277) was a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria. ...