[2] Tirat Carmel is built on the ruins of the town of al-Tira which was conquered by Israeli paramilitary organisations during the War of Independence.

[3] It was ruled by the Ottomans in late medieval and Renaissance times and was an agricultural area with wheat and goats and other farms.

[4] While conscription in the late 1800s harmed the town, it recovered, and by 1945 was an agricultural Muslim community with a Christian minority.

In 1949 two absorption centers were established for Jewish immigrants in the same location, which in 1954 were reorganized into the municipality of Tirat Carmel.

[citation needed] According to CBS, in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.6% Jewish and other non-Arab, with no significant Arab population.