Daliyat al-Karmel is a Druze town located on Mount Carmel in the Haifa District of Israel, around 20 km southeast of Haifa. In 2022 its population was 18,001.
Daliyat al-Karmel
Druze prayer house in Daliyat al-Karmel
Main street of Daliyat al-Karmel
Laurence Oliphant House
Mount Carmel, also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias, is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. A number of towns are situated there, most notably Haifa, Israel's third largest city, located on the northern and western slopes.
Southern tip of Mount Carmel at sunset, as seen from the entrance to Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael
A view of Mount Carmel in 1894
Coloured postcard of "Haifa, Mount Carmel", by Karimeh Abbud, c. 1925
Distribution of the Neanderthal, and main sites, including Tabun cave, 500,000 to around 40,000 BP