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Annual precipitation is approximately 524 millimeters (21 in).Īccording to CBS, in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.8% Jewish and other non-Arab, without a significant Arab population. Snowfall is rare, but snow was recorded three times in the 20th century: in 1950, 19. The hottest month is July and the coldest is February. Kiryat Ata has a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and cool and rainy winters. In 1965, when the village was merged with adjacent Kiryat Binyamin, the name became Kiryat Ata. The town was renamed Kfar Ata in 1940, which was also the name of the local textile factory. A year later the residents returned and rebuilt the community. During the 1929 Arab riots the town was attacked and abandoned. In the early 20th century, the lands of the Arab village of Kefr Etta were purchased by a Warsaw religious foundation named "Avodat Israel" through intermediaries in the American Zion Commonwealth. Of this, 6 dunams were designated for citrus and bananas, 39 dunams for plantations and irrigable land, 1,527 for cereals, while 3,591 dunams were built-up (urban) areas. In the 1945 statistics the population of Kfar Atta (Kufritta) consisted of 1,690 Jews and the land area was 6,131 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. In 1934, one of the country's largest textile plants, ATA, was established there. In the 1931 census Kufritta had a population of 4 Muslims and 29 Jews, in a total of 13 occupied houses. At the time, there were 75 families living there. In 1925 a Zionist organisation purchased 10,000 dunums from Alexander Sursock, of the Sursock family of Beirut. The area was acquired by the Jewish community as part of the Sursock Purchase. In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kufritta showed a population of 400 7 Christians and 393 Muslims, where all the Christians were of the Orthodox faith. Kefr Etta had about 285 inhabitants all Muslims. In 1881 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described Kefr Etta as "a small adobe village, on the plain, with a well on the north and olives on the east." Ī population list from about 1887 showed that Kh.
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In 1875 Victor Guérin visited, and found the village to have 50 houses. In 1859 the population was estimated to be 100, and the cultivation was 16 feddans. The village appeared under the name of Koufour Tai on the map that Pierre Jacotin compiled during Napoleon's invasion of 1799, while in 1856 it was named Kefr Ette on the map of Southern Palestine that Heinrich Kiepert published that year. They paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on wheat, barley, fruit trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues a total of 1,508 akçe. The population was 15 households, all Muslim. Incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, Kufrata appeared in the census of 1596, located in the Nahiya of Acca, part of Safad Sanjak. An excavation at Independence Street, Qiryat Ata, showed nearly continuous settlement dating from the Persian and Hellenistic eras up to the Mamluk era (late eleventh–early fifteenth century CE). Ceramics from the Mamluk era have also been found here. In 1283 it was mentioned as part of the domain of the Crusaders, according to the hudna between the Crusaders and the Mamluk sultan Qalawun. Ceramics from the Byzantine era have also been found here, and a building from the Byzantine or early Islamic period has been excavated.
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Some have had crosses and Greek letters incised, supporting the theory that there was a Byzantine monastery located in the area. Rock-hewn winepresses dating to the Byzantine era have been found here. Īrchaeologists Mordechai Aviam and Dan Barag (1935–2009) thought it to be the Capharatha ( Greek: Καφαραθ᾽) mentioned by Josephus in the Lower Galilee, one of several views tentatively identified for the site. At Tell el ‘Idham remains from a continuous habitation from the early Bronze Age, through the Persian age down to the Roman era have been identified. The Early Bronze Age site at Qiryat Ata has been extensively excavated since 1990, revealing stratified remains from the Neolithic, EB (=early Bronze Age), IB and EB II periods.