Nesher (Hebrew נשר‎, lit. griffon vulture (bird)) is a city in Israel founded in 1925. The city is located in a picturesque hilly area on Mount Carmel, 4 kilometers east of the city of Haifa.

General Help
Nesher was created as an urban-type settlement. The city of Nesher is surrounded by the huge Carmel Park, one of the largest parks in Israel. The districts of the city are very close to the Haifa Technion (technical university) and the student dormitories of the University. The population of Nesher is 23,829 people (2010 April 29). Of these, 6 thousand people are repatriates of the last wave from the former Soviet Union. There are 5 microdistricts in Nesher: Ben Dor, Tel Hanan, Givat Nesher, Ramot Yitzhak and Givat Amos. According to the project, the city is designed for 35,000.

History of Nesher
The area where Nesher is located was inhabited in the Bronze Age, as evidenced by the excavations of archaeologists. Excavations are still being carried out near the stadium on Derech Bar Yehuda. For the first time, official recognition of the settlement on the site of the present Nesher was received in 1925. Then there were several Arab villages here: Balleda Sheikh, Khavsa and the village of Yazhur (subsequently, kibbutz Yagur was organized here by Jewish settlers). In the swampy area, the Arab peasants carried on primitive agriculture. At the very foot of Mount Carmel lived artisans: potters, masons, cattle breeders. The land in the area of ​​the current industrial zone of Nesher belonged to the wealthy Syrian Hori, who also owned the Cement-Nesher plant. In 1922, after the death of Hori, these lands were bought by Michael Polik, a Jew from Russia. On the purchased land, he built a factory for the production of prefabricated wooden houses. Mikhail Polik became the ancestor of the future city of Nesher, leasing prefabricated panel houses to Jewish workers so that they could settle in this area. The Arabs from the very beginning did not like the Jewish presence, with each passing day the relationship between Jews and Arabs escalated. This continued until 1936, when simple skirmishes began to develop into open hostility. The first victim was a Jewish worker, and soon several more Jews who arrived in the city by car were killed by the Arabs. This could no longer continue, and in 1939 the Jews created the first self-defense units. In response, the Arab workers began to leave the factory. The Jews, due to their small numbers, could not cope with the work, and the factory closed. After some time, the plant was bought by the Jew Solel Bona, and work resumed. The construction of multi-family houses began, in which Jewish families settled. By that time, about one thousand five hundred Jews lived in the city.

The Second World War began – the enmity between Jews and Arabs subsided somewhat. The British authorities, fearing the invasion of German troops, began to involve the population in the construction of defensive structures.

The recruitment of Jews and Arabs into the British Volunteer Corps began, and the enmity subsided until the end of the war, only to flare up with renewed vigor later. The bomb thrown by the Arabs at the entrance of the factory in the village of Baleda Sheikh, everything returned to normal, and hostility resumed. Soon the Arabs killed 42 Jews – residents of Nesher. And then on December 31, 1947, a Jewish self-defense detachment, with the support of students from the Haifa Technion, attacked the Arabs. For a while, the Arabs fell silent, and at the beginning of the war of independence in 1948, they began to flee the villages, fleeing the fighting and obeying the orders of the Arab leaders. 2500 Arabs sailed on boats towards Lebanon. From the beginning of 1948, mass repatriation of Jews to Israel from Africa, Iraq and European countries began: Hungary, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia. Up to 1,000 people arrived per day, up to 30,000 per month. The population of the future city of Nesher also grew. There was not enough housing, there was no electricity, water was carried by hand from distant wells. A factory came to the rescue, which temporarily provided the future city with water and electricity. Other difficulties awaited the new residents: many suffered from malaria, suffered from poor-quality water and midge bites. Only in 1951 Nesher centrally received both water and electricity. On this occasion, a large Water and Light Festival was held, organized by volunteer activists. Everyone celebrated it in their own way, observing local traditions and traditions of the countries of origin. In 1952, a city administration appeared in Nesher. Yehuda Shamrani became the first head of the Nesher Council. The four districts of Ben Dor, Tel Hanan, Givat Nesher and Givat Amos were officially approved in the city. Nesher began to develop rapidly and there were all conditions for this. There were no more problems with water and electricity, new enterprises appeared in the industrial zone.

Development of modern Nesher
The Arabs never returned to their villages, therefore, the administration decided to demolish 1,600 old Arab houses that were uninhabitable. Housing construction began on a new master plan for the city’s growing population. The topographic location of the city made it necessary to solve complex issues of urban planning, to build houses in steps, to lay numerous stairs. The growth in the number of inhabitants and the availability of modern infrastructure made it possible in 1995 by the decision of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to transfer Nesher to the category of cities. The city grows and builds from year to year.
David Amar became the city’s first mayor in 1989. In the 2013 elections, he lost his seat to Avi Binamo.
In Nesher, the problem of rented subsidized housing for pensioners (“Mikbatsei diyur”) has been completely solved. Two high-rise buildings were built for the elderly, and all those in need of housing received beautiful apartments in new buildings. Basically, these are pensioners who arrived in Israel before December 31, 2002. Nesher is a green city with many parks and squares. They have many flowers and flowering shrubs, as well as many well-equipped children’s playgrounds.

Territorial division
Modern Nesher has five microdistricts:

Tel Hanan
После того, как арабы покинули деревню Бальеда-Шейх, она была переименована в Tel Hanan в честь Ханана Зелингера, командира отряда самообороны, погибшего в ночь мести 31 декабря 1947 года

Ben Dor
Арабская деревня Хавса стала называться Ben Dor по имени погибшего Хаима Ben Dorа, одного из руководителей отряда самообороны, жителя Иерусалима.

Givat Amos
Район Givat Amos и школа Глилот были названы именем Амоса Галиля, ещё одного командира подразделения, убитого в том бою.

Ramot Yitzhak
In the 1990s, a plan began to build a new neighborhood called Ramot Yitzhak, named after Yitzhak Root, the city’s mayor from 1952 to 1972. By 1997, about 3,000 apartments had been commissioned here. More than 6,000 people moved here from Haifa and Krayot for permanent residence. Ramot Yitzhak is built up with new houses with a modern layout. There are also beautiful squares and playgrounds, a lot of greenery and flowers. Everything is done for the convenience of the citizens.