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November 5, 2025Nesher is a settlement located in the Haifa Subdistrict, southeast of the city of Haifa. It was established in 1925 as housing for workers of the Haifa Cement Factory, on land that belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Balad al-Shaykh (Haifa Subdistrict).
The settlement covers an area of 12 square kilometers. As of 2015, the number of settlers in Nesher was approximately 23,500.
Sources:
Due to the limited availability of Arabic-language sources, we relied on Israeli sources, including the official Hebrew website of the settlement and the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.
Information on the village of Balad al-Shaykh was taken from the Palestine Remembered website.