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.