the mill was designed to meet all of Israel's paper needs. It was also at this time that the Givat Olga neighbourhood was constructed on the coast, and Beit Eliezer in the east of the city.
From the 1990s
The city grew dramatically during the 1990s as it absorbed large numbers of Russian and Ethiopian immigrants. Hadera, considered a safe place by its inhabitants, was jolted by several acts of terrorism, including a massacre of six civilians at a Bat Mitzvah and a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a falafel stand on October 26, 2005, killing seven civilians, and 55 were injured, of them five in severe condition. In addition, four civilians were killed when a terrorist opened fire on pedestrians at a bus stop on October 28, 2001. However, since the construction of the nearby West Bank barrier, the frequency of such incidents has dropped drastically. On August 4, 2006, three rockets fired by Hezbollah hit Hadera. Hadera is 50 miles (80 km) south of the Lebanese border and marked the farthest point inside Israel hit by
