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Tirat Karmel (meaning Karmel's castle / palace) is
situated between Mount Karmel and the seashore just south of Haifa . Est. 1948 and has 20,000 inh.
In my visit on 3 september 2001, I did not see any flag above the
city hall. However, a municipal emblem on a white flag was
spotted above another municipal building. The municipal emblem
was published in the official gazette (Rashumot), YP
690, 30 July 1959, for the then Local Council Tirat HaKarmel.
Dov Gutterman, 9 September 2001
Mr. Shmuel Katoni, city clerk, wrote me:
Dov Gutterman, 10 October 2001
Tirat Karmel on the sloops of the Karmel, almost touching
Haifa from the south, and east to road 4. It became an Local
Council in 1951 and municipality in 1992.
The name came from the Crusaders era town of St. Jean de Tyr and
later the Arab village of Tira. The current town started as
transitional settlement (Ma'aberet Tira) founded in
1949. Since there was another two more Tira, the suffix
Karmel was added to reflect its proximity to the Karmel
mountains.
Sources: <www.galil-net.org.il>,
<www.tirat-carmel.org.il>
Dov Gutterman, 21 April 2005