Bet Oren Attractions

Bet Oren ("House in the Pinewood"), a kibbutz founded in 1939, lies to the south of Haifa on Mount Carmel but is only 6km/4mi from the sea, so that holidaymakers here can enjoy a variety of scenery and of activity. There are two possible routes from Haifa to Bet Oren: either take the coast road to the south and at the turn-off for Atlit (13km/8mi) turn into a road to the left, or alternatively take the Mount Carmel road and in 19km/12mi turn right. Remains of Carmel Man, who lived in the Palaeolithic era, 130,000 years ago, were found in caves 6km/4mi west of the village. Finds from the site are now in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem.