Nordic Wooden Huts and Israeli Public Housing

This chapter presents the considerable Nordic influence on Israeli housing solutions in the 1950s. Following the need for rapid housing solutions resulting from the steep demographical rise after the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948, thousands of imported Nordic wooden huts became part of the Israeli landscape. What prompted Israel to import those huts specifically? The chapter examines the considerable contribution of the Nordic huts, along with all their challenges, to the building of the newly established Israeli state from the first purchase in 1946 to the nostalgic commemoration of the huts nowadays.