Atlit is a small coastal communal settlement located south of Haifa in Israel. It was originally an outpost of the Crusaders. The modern village was founded in 1903 under the auspices of Baron Edmond de Rothschild. The ‘Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station’managed by Aaron Aaronsohn was part of the new settlement.The Atlit detainee camp was used by the British authorities to detain illegal Jewish immigrants returning to the Land of Israel from the end of the 1930s onward. On October 10, 1945, the Palmach broke into the illegal-immigrant detention camp at Atlit and freed its inhabitants in a bold operation.