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General Motors truck picking up passengers from the central bus station to go to Merhavia from Nahariya, Israel; 1951. x

Nahariya was founded in 1935 during the British Mandate of Palestine as an agricultural community headed by Selig Soskin, a noted Jewish scientist, after land was purchased from an Arab landowning family.  After achieving only marginal success in agriculture because of climate and financial problems, the town diversified to focus on tourism as well.