On the fourth day of our tour we left Tel Aviv and traveled north along the Mediterranean coastline to visit the archaeological ruins of Caesarea. First established as a Phoenician trading village around 400 BC, it later became the capital of Roman Judea and was greatly expanded under King Herod, who named it Caesarea in honor of Caesar Augustus, the Roman Emperor. From Caesarea we visited the Atlit Detention Camp, located approximately 12 miles south of Haifa. This concentration camp, surrounded by barbed wire and watch towers, was built by the British in the 1930s and was used primarily to detain tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing the horrors of German-occupied Europe who did not have official entry documents into the Palestinian territories. The camp was temporarily closed in 1942, but re-established in 1945 in an attempt to stop illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine. It was also used as a prisoner of war camp during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, and eventually closed following the formation of the State of Israel. Today, the entire complex is a well preserved museum. From here we ascended Mt. Carmel on our way to Haifa, stopping at a Druze mountaintop village for lunch.