Kiryat Ata

Kiryat Ata (Hebrew קִרְיַת אָתָא; Qiryat Ata) is a city in the Haifa District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS ) the town had 50,700 inhabitants in late 2009. The city is also known under its former name of Kfar Ata (Hebrew כְּפַר עָטָּה ).

History

Archaeological investigations in Khirbet Sharta in the northeast of the city indicate a settlement during the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Hellenistic period, belonging to the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire as well as to a rule of the Mamelukes.

In the early 20th century, the lands of the Arab village Kofrita through intermediaries of the American Zion Commonwealth by the religious Warsaw Foundation " Avodas Israel " were acquired. Kfar Ata was founded in 1925 by Avodas Israel and renamed the occasion of its merger with the nearby Kiryat Ata Kiryat Binyamin 1965. During the uprising of 1929 Kfar Ata was attacked by Palestinians and temporarily abandoned by its inhabitants. The inhabitants of the city returned a year later to their own town and the community built scratch. The city was known by the 1934 built and 1984 closed textile factory " Ata Textile Factory". Kiryat Ata in 1969 was awarded the rank of a city.

Climate

Kiryat Ata has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cool, rainy winters.

Population structure

According to CBS lived in the city in 2001 to 99.8 % Jewish and other non-Arab inhabitants.