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- Elijah fought the prophets of Baal on this same Mount Carmel thousands of years ago and the cave where he hid is considered a holy place to Jews — as well as Christians, Muslims, and Druze — to this day. Jewish Haifa was well established during the Second Temple period, and it is mentioned over a hundred times in the Talmud.
Continued Jewish immigration gradually raised the Jewish population of Haifa, and included a small number of Ashkenazi families, most of whom opened hotels for Jewish migrants coming into the city. In 1875, the Jewish community of Haifa held its own census which counted the Jewish population at about 200. [50]
Haifa is mentioned in Jewish sources as the home of R. Avdimos (Avdimi, Dimi) and other scholars (Tosef., Yev. 6:8). It was a fishing village whose inhabitants, like the people of Beth-Shean and Tivon, could not distinguish between the pronunciation of the gutturals ḥet and ayin (TJ, Ber. 2:4).
Jewish Haifa was well established during the Second Temple period, and it is mentioned over a hundred times in the Talmud. Jewish residents valiantly resisted the Crusader conquest in 1101 CE for over eight months. When the city fell, they were slaughtered by the furious Crusaders.
- Doron Kornbluth
The history of Haifa dates back before the 3rd century BCE. Since then it has been controlled by several civilizations, including the Canaanites, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Muslims, Crusaders, Kurds, the Mamluks, the Ottoman Turks and the British; currently it is a major city in Israel.
Oct 26, 2015 · In mid-October, in the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Ata, a Jewish man stabbed a Mizrachi Jew, or Jew from an Arab background, mistaking him for an Arab non-Jew in an apparent revenge attack for...
1 day ago · Haifa, city, northwestern Israel. The principal port of the country, it lies along the Bay of Haifa overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The city is situated on the northern slopes of Mount Carmel, except for the port section on the bay. The lower and upper cities are linked by an underground railway.
The Haifa District was home to approximately 20,000 inhabitants, of which 82% were Muslim Arab, 14% Christian Arab, and 4% Jewish. The number of Jews steadily increased due to immigration, especially from Europe.
