Nesher
Nesher
נֶשֶׁר | |
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Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | Nešr |
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District | ![]() |
Founded | 1923 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Roy Levi |
Area | |
• Total | 12,090 dunams (12.09 km2 or 4.67 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 23,761 |
• Density | 2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi) |
Name meaning | "Vulture" |
Nesher (Hebrew: נֶשֶׁר) is a city in the Haifa District of Israel. In 2022 it had a population of 23,761.[1] It was founded in 1923 as a workers town for the Nesher Cement factory, the first cement factory in the country.
History
[edit]Nesher was founded in 1924 as a workers town for the Nesher Cement factory, established in September 1923 by Michael Pollack, a Jewish industrialist from Russia. The area was swampy and malaria-infested, but employees of the factory gradually moved there with their families, bringing the population to 1,500.[2] Nesher was floated as a public company in 1925.[3] During the 1929 Palestine riots, Arabs from neighbouring Balad al-Sheikh attacked the factory and burned down a farm.[4]
By the mid-1930s, Nesher Cement had 700 employees, both Jewish and Arab.[3]
In 1948, thousands of Jewish immigrants from Europe, Iraq and North Africa settled in Nesher. The town also expanded over the Palestinian village of Balad al-Sheikh, immediately north-west of Old Nesher, after it was depopulated during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine. A portion of the Tel Hanan neighborhood of the city was built over the village. In 1952, a local council was formed comprising four neighborhoods – Nesher, Giv’at Nesher, Ben-Dor and Tel Hanan. The first mayor was Yehuda Shimroni.[5]
Demographics
[edit]CBS statistics for 2005 show Nesher's ethnic makeup as 99.5% Jewish and other non-Arabs. 30.7% of the population in 2005 were immigrants who came to Israel after 1990.[6]
Education
[edit]The city's education system comprises six elementary schools, one comprehensive high school, two middle schools and 36 kindergartens and day care centers with an enrollment of 4,000 pupils. Over 70% of Nesher's high school students take the Bagrut matriculation exams, with a pass rate of 98%, one of the highest rates in Israel. Nesher's high school won the Israeli Education Prize twice in the span of a decade.[5]
Twinning and cultural exchange
[edit]In 2005, the Broward County Jewish Federation established a partnership with Nesher in an effort to create a people-to-people cultural exchange program that includes high school and college student exchanges and video conferencing for events such as school celebrations and concerts.[7]
Emblem
[edit]The municipal emblem was designed by David Hollod and approved at a local committee meeting on the 24th of October 1962. It includes multiple references:
- The vulture represents the name of the city and the cement factory from its inception.
- The 4 hills represent the mountainous terrain and the four original neighborhoods that constituted the settlement–Ben Dor, Tel Hanan, Nesher, and Givat Nesher.
- The factory and chimney represent the industrial foundation the city was established upon.
- The tree represents the growth and prosperity of the city over the years.
Gallery
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Nesher Cement factory, 1924
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Post office building in Nesher, 1938
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Nesher 1942 1:20,000
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Nesher 1945 1:250,000
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "Nesher – At the heart of the region". Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
- ^ a b Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society 1918-1939, May Seikaly
- ^ Eshel, Tzadok (1976). The Cement and Its Makers: Nesher's Jubilee (in Hebrew). Haifa: Nesher. p. 68.
- ^ a b "About Nesher". Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2011-09-16.
- ^ "Local Authorities in Israel 2005, Publication #1295 - Municipality Profiles - Nesher" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
- ^ Liebermann, Randall P. (August 14, 2013). "Sharansky supports Federation-Nesher partnership". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
External links
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