Khayat Beach, Beach in Haifa, Israel

Khayat Beach is a roughly 2 km strip of Haifa's coastline running from Tel Shikmona in the north to Dado Beach in the south. Aziz Khayat laid out an organised bathing beach on family land near the village of Samir in 1931, with dressing rooms, a restaurant and other facilities. A British military cemetery and a Royal Army Ordnance Corps camp, Khayat Beach R.A.O.C., stood beside it during World War II.

Aziz Khayat opened an organised bathing beach on his family land near Samir in 1931, with changing rooms and a restaurant. In 1934 the Mandate government expropriated a large area beside it for Haifa's cemeteries, and during World War II the British set up a military cemetery and the Khayat Beach R.A.O.C. camp there. In March 1948 the camp and its equipment were offered for sale.

The beach is named after the Khayat family, who owned the coastal land and opened an organised bathing beach there in 1931 under Aziz Khayat. Its restaurant was described by writer Abd al-Latif Kanafani as especially fine, with a jazz orchestra playing dance music, and a British Army band performed at the opening of the second bathing season.

The beach runs about 2 km along Haifa's shore, from Tel Shikmona in the north to Dado Beach in the south. Aziz Khayat's family ran bus lines from the city to the beach in the 1930s and 1940s; the concession passed to Egged in 1960. The site became fenced off in 1966, and in summer 1981 the beach reopened under municipal management without an entrance fee.

The British army built a military cemetery beside the beach during World War II and named its nearby Royal Army Ordnance Corps camp Khayat Beach R.A.O.C.; in March 1948, near the end of the Mandate, the camp and its equipment were offered for sale. The cemetery land had been expropriated from the Khayat family in 1934 for Haifa's cemeteries.