Short answers, pulled from the story.
Tell Abu Hawam emerged as a small port city during the Late Bronze Age, around the 14th century BCE. Archaeologists have uncovered jars and remains from Iron Age, Roman, and Byzantine periods at this site.
Daher al-Umar destroyed the old city known as Haifa el-Atika in 1769 and rebuilt it further east as a new fortified town. This event marked the beginning of modern Haifa's existence.
By the 2nd of October 1948, only 5,000 to 6,000 of the city's 62,000 Arabs remained there. Historian Walid Khalidi described this mass exodus as a spontaneous reaction to terror tactics used by the Haganah.
In 1909, the remains of the Báb were moved from Acre to Haifa and interred in a shrine built on Mount Carmel. Bahá'ís consider this shrine their second holiest place after the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh in Acre.
The Haifa oil refinery processes 9 million tons or 66 million barrels of crude oil annually. Its twin 80-meter high cooling towers, built in the 1930s, were the tallest structures constructed during the British Mandate period.
The Carmel Tunnels opened for traffic on the 1st of December 2010, routing vehicles under Mount Carmel to reduce downtown congestion. The Bat Galim cable car connects the coast to the Stella Maris monastery atop Mount Carmel, serving mainly tourists since April 2022.