The area was swampy and malaria-infested, but employees of the factory gradually moved there with their families, bringing the population to 1,500.

[3] During the 1929 Palestine riots, Arabs from neighbouring Balad al-Sheikh attacked the factory and burned down a farm.

The town also expanded over the Palestinian village of Balad al-Sheikh, immediately north-west of Old Nesher, after it was depopulated during the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine.

[5] In 2005, the Broward County Jewish Federation established a partnership with Nesher in an effort to create a people-to-people cultural exchange program that includes high school and college student exchanges and video conferencing for events such as school celebrations and concerts.

[7] The municipal emblem was designed by David Hollod and approved at a local committee meeting on the 24th of October 1962.