Solel Boneh (, lit. Paving and Building) is the oldest, and one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in Israel.
History
During British rule (1921–1948)
Solel Boneh was founded in 1921 in British-ruled Palestine, during the first conference of the Jewish trade union, the General Histadrut, under the name of Batz, an acronym of Binyan veAvodot Tziburiot (, lit. Construction and Public Works). Its first project was to pave a road from Tiberias to Samakh, which is now part of Highway 90. The company was founded as a cooperative organisation in the spirit of socialist workers' groups. In 1927 it was declared bankrupt partly due to its supplementing wages to Jewish workers. It was resurrected by the Histadrut and the World Zionist Organization as a company named "Solel Boneh", based on the organisation but managed as a business corporation.[1]
Solel Boneh had an integral role in major building activities in Mandate Palestine. Among other projects, the company built