The Israeli government built seven development towns for the Bedouin between 1979 and 1982.
It was founded as a development town on April 19, 1955.
It was one of the last development towns to be founded.
Over time, government housing was built to accommodate much of the new population, like in many other development towns.
In 1953, it was classified as a development town.
He set in motion a long school day program in development towns and poverty stricken areas.
And the tent cities of the 1950s morphed into so-called "development towns".
It was one of Israel's first development towns, created to settle frontier areas in the early days of the state.
Nahariya became a development town in the 1950s after the nearby ma'abara was integrated.
It later became one of several development towns in the Negev.