It is strategically ensconced on the southern end of Mt Carmel, commands breathtaking views down and over the steep Carmel foothills to the narrow coastal plain and the Mediterranean below.

Ramat HaNadiv — which translates to Heights of the Benefactor — is situated on the outskirts of Zichron Yaacov, a town founded on land bought in 1882 by a group of families from Romania, members of the Hovevei Zion movement and who named their settlement Zamarin.

Beaten by the harshest of natural elements, including rampant diseases like malaria and swamp fever, the new immigrants soon found themselves in dire straits.

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