Israel Land Development Company

Israel Land Development Company (ILDC; Hebrew: הכשרת הישוב, Hakhsharat HaYishuv) is one of Israel's largest conglomerates, with fields including real estate, construction, energy and hotels.

[1] ILDC was founded in 1909 by the Zionist Federation as the Palestine Land Development Company, or Palestine Land Development Corporation.

[3] It was a program of the practicalist movement in early Zionism, particularly in the decade before the start of World War I.

By the outbreak of World War I it had purchased about 50,000 dunam (about 4600 hectares) of land.

[4] In 2006 Nimrodi signed an agreement to buy out a 20% minority shareholder which valued the company at $172m.

Head office in Tel Aviv