Kiryat Ata is a city in the Haifa District of Israel. In 2022 it had a population of 61,142, 92% of whom were Jewish citizens.

The Sursock Purchases were land purchases made by Jewish organizations from the Greek Sursock family, mainly from 1901 to 1925. These included the Jezreel Valley and Haifa Bay, as well as other lands in what became the Mandate for Palestine. These collectively formed the largest Jewish land purchase in Palestine during the period of early Jewish immigration.