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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.

Nesher was floated as a public company in 1925.

By the mid-1930s, it had 700 employees, both Jewish and Arab.