Shmurat Yam Gallim
Shmurat Yam Gallim is a nature reserve in Haifa District, Israel. Shmurat Yam Gallim is situated nearby to the village Megadim, as well as near the town Atlit.Places of Interest
Highlights include Atlit Yam and Atlit camp.
Atlit Yam
Archaeological site
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Atlit Yam is a submerged Pre Pottery Neolithic C archaeological site located 300–400 meters off the coast of Atlit, Israel. Dating from the late 7th to the early 6th millennia BCE, Atlit Yam provides the earliest known evidence for a community relying on pastoralism, agriculture, and fishing as subsistence systems on the Levantine coast.
Atlit camp
Museum
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The Atlit detainee camp was an internment camp established by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine in the late 1930s on what is now the Israeli coastal plain, 20 kilometres south of Haifa.
Pelegrin Fortress
Archaeological site
Photo: Golf Bravo, Public domain.
Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit and Magdiel, is a Crusader fortress and fortified town located about 2 kilometres north of the modern Israeli town of Atlit on the northern coast of Israel, about 13 kilometres south of Haifa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Megadim and Atlit.
Megadim
Village
Photo: Meronim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Megadim is a moshav in northern Israel. Located on the Mediterranean coast near Atlit and Highway 4, about 12 kilometres south of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 1,215.
Atlit
Town
Photo: Iliakriv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Atlit is a coastal town located south of Haifa, Israel. The community is in the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council in the Haifa District of Israel. Off the coast of Atlit is a submerged Neolithic village. Atlit is situated 3 km south of Shmurat Yam Gallim.
Neve Yam
Village
Neve Yam is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located around twenty kilometres south of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2024 it had a population of 301. Neve Yam is situated 4 km south of Shmurat Yam Gallim.
Shmurat Yam Gallim
- Type: Nature reserve
- Also known as: “Shemurat Yam Gallim”
- Location: Haifa District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.71606° or 32° 42′ 58″ northLongitude
34.93929° or 34° 56′ 21″ eastOpen location code
8G4PPW8Q+CPGeoNames ID
9978341
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In Other Languages
“Shmurat Yam Gallim” goes by many names.
- Hebrew: “שמורת ים גלים”
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