• 02/12/2025

Crashed ‘carma’: Haifa exhibit shows history of Israel’s failed auto industry

Jerusalem Post

 Yitzhak Shubinsky in the first sports car that left the factory, 1960s. (photo credit: Shubinsky family collection)
From a peak during the 1960s of manufacturing more than 3,000 cars annually, 1980 – the last full year of production – saw just 540 cars roll off the assembly line. In 1981, the plant shut its gates.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-841382