Daliyat el-Karmel, Israel - Druze village on Mt Carmel - postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Daliyat El Carmel [or Daliyat el-Karmel] [Israel] - "A Druze village on Mt Carmel.."
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Daliyat el-Karmel (Arabic: دَالِيَةِ ٱلْكَرْمِل‎, Hebrew: דַלְיַת אֶל-כַּרְמֶל) is a Druze town in the Haifa District of Israel, located around 20 km southeast of Haifa. In 2018 its population was 17,427.[1] Daliyat al-Karmel, situated on Mount Carmel, is the country’s largest and southernmost Druze town.[3]

In 1283 both Daliyat al-Karmel and Kh. Doubel (just south of Daliyat al-Karmel) were mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusaders, according to the hudna between the Crusaders in Acre and the Mamluk sultan Qalawun.[4]

In 1870 a local guide showed French explorer Victor Guérin extensive ruins located south of Daliyat al-Karmel, called Khirbet Doubel. The ruins were the most extensive on Mt. Carmel. Guérin thought it might be the town on Mt. Carmel mentioned by Pliny.[5] Conder and Kitchener of the Palestine Exploration Fund surveyed the area and noted "traces of ruins" at a place SE of the village centre called Dubil.[6] Later excavations have found remains there from Iron Age I, Early Roman and Byzantine periods,[7] together with pottery from first century to the second–third centuries CE.[8] Although inconclusive, Lieutenant Conder thought that Daliyat al-Karmel was to be identified with the biblical Idalah (Joshua 19:15).[9]

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In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Daliyat al-Karmel had a population of 993; 921 Druse and 21 Christians,[14] increasing in the 1931 census when Daliyat al-Karmel, together Deir el Muhraqa and Khirbat el Mansura had a total population of 1173; 1154 Druse, 11 Christians and 8 Muslims, in a total of 236 houses.[15]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Daliyat al-Karmel consisted of 2,060 Arabs,[16] (20 Christians and 2,040 classified as "Others", that is: Druze)[17] and the land area was 31,730 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[16] Of this, 1,506 dunams were designated for plantations and irrigable land, 18,174 for cereals,[18] while 60 dunams were built-up areas.[19]

An Israeli census conducted in November 1948 found 2,932 residents. At the end of 1951 the figure dropped to 2,769.[20] The town was granted local council status in 1951. In 2003, Dalyat was merged with nearby Isfiya to create Carmel City.[21] In 2008, the communities became separate once again. The town is famous for its colorful market.[22]

In 2010, El Al, Israel's national airline, named one of its Boeing 767 airplanes Daliyat al-Karmel. Sheikh Muafak Tarif, leader of the Druze community, was presented with a miniature model of the plane at a special ceremony.[23]