Nesher

This article is about the city. For the fighter aircraft, see IAI Nesher.

Nesher
Hebrew transcription(s)
– Hebrew	נֶשֶׁר
– ISO 259	Nešr
Nesher
Coordinates: 32°46′N 35°03′E / 32.767°N 35.05°E / 32.767; 35.05Coordinates: 32°46′N 35°03′E / 32.767°N 35.05°E / 32.767; 35.05
District	Haifa
Founded	1925
Government
– Type	City
– Mayor	David Amar
Area
– Total	12,090 dunams (12.1 km2 / 4.7 sq mi)
Population (2010)
– Total	23,000
Name meaning	vulture

Nesher (Hebrew: נֶשֶׁר‎‎) is a city in the Haifa District of Israel. In 2011, Nesher had a population of 23,000. The mayor of Nesher is David Amar.^[1]

Etymology

The town was called Nesher, Hebrew for vulture, from the Nesher Cement factory, which may have been so named after the German company Geier (vulture in German).

History

Nesher Cement factory, 1924

Nesher was founded in the early 1930s as a workers town for the Nesher Cement factory, established in 1922 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. By the mid-1930s, it had 700 employees, both Jewish and Arab.^[3]

Demographics

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.^[4]

According to 2001 CBS statistics, Nesher had 10,000 male and 10,500 female residents. The population was distributed as follows: 29.4% 19 years of age or younger, 16.1% between 20 and 29, 24.0% between 30 and 44, 16.0% from 45 to 59, 3.6% from 60 to 64, and 10.8% 65 years of age or older. The population growth rate in 2001 was 0.6%.

Income

According to CBS statistics for 2000, city residents included 8,026 salaried workers and 474 self-employed. The mean monthly wage in 2000 for a salaried worker in the city was 5,974 NIS, a real change of 7.5% over the course of 2000. Salaried males had a mean monthly wage of 7,664 NIS (a real change of 6.5%) versus 4,177 NIS for females (a real change of 5.1%). The mean income for the self-employed is 5,727 NIS. There were 435 individuals receiving unemployment benefits and 1,264 individuals receiving a basic income-guarantee supplement.

Education

According to the CBS, the city has 9 schools with 3,207 students enrolled. These include 6 elementary schools (1,695 students), and 3 high schools (1,512 students). 80.7% of 12th grade students qualified for a matriculation certificate (high school diploma) in 2001.

Panorama of Nesher View to Mt. Carmel

References

1. ^ Nesher – At the heart of the region
2. ^ Nesher – At the heart of the region
3. ^ Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society 1918-1939, May Seikaly
4. ^ "Local Authorities in Israel 2005, Publication #1295 - Municipality Profiles - Nesher". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications/local_authorities2005/pdf/213_2500.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-20.  (Hebrew)

External links

• Official Website
• results from Kosmix