Nesher is a city in the Haifa District of Israel. In 2024 it had a population of 22,896. It was founded in 1923 as a workers town for the Nesher Cement factory, the first cement factory in the country
Nesher, Givat Nesher, Tel Hanan 009
Yagur – Nesher, the Green Path – Mount Carmel 081
Nesher, Givat Nesher, Tel Hanan 073
Nesher, Park Nesher, Wadi Katia 171
Balad al-Sheikh or Balad ash-Shaykh was a Palestinian Arab village located just north of Mount Carmel, 7 kilometers southeast of Haifa. Currently the town's land is located within the jurisdiction of
Nesher
…families, bringing the population to 1,500. Nesher was floated as a public company in 1925. During the 1929 Palestine riots, Arabs from neighbouring Balad al-Sheikh attacked the factory and burned down a farm. By the mid-1930s, Nesher Cement had 700 employees, both Jewish and Arab…
A house from Balad ash-Sheikh, now Tel Hanan, Nesher
The maqam of Sheikh Abdallah Al-Sahli in Balad al-Sheikh, 2010
Balad al-Sheikh 1945 1:250,000
Grave of Izz al-Din al-Qassam who was buried in The Muslim cemetery of Haifa in Nesher in 1935