Tag: Sderot
Social workers in Israel’s south get 500 protective vests for rocket barrages
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews distributed approximately 500 protective vests on Tuesday for social workers and emergency response workers in Negev communities, including Beersheva, Sderot, Netivot and a number of Bedouin communities.
“The...
Largest menorah in Europe donated to Sderot by Christian Zionists
Dutch Christian Zionist have donated what was previously the largest Hanukkah menorah in Europe to the Israeli city of Sderot as a gesture of solidarity with the Gaza-border town, which has suffered for years...
3 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza; IDF strikes Hamas targets
Terrorists in Gaza fired three rockets into southern Israel Sunday night, triggering sirens in the southern cities of Sderot, Ibim, Or HaNer, Nir Am, Gevim and at Sapir College.
According to the Israel Defense Forces,...
Gaza rocket hits yeshivah in Sderot in second attack of day
A rocket launched by Hamas in Gaza struck a building in the southern Israeli town of Sderot late on Thursday, causing damage but no injuries.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the building hit belong...
Sderot residents among wounded in California Chabad synagogue shooting
Two of the victims of Saturday’s shooting at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, Calif., were former residents of the rocket-beleaguered Israeli town of Sderot, and had come to the United States for respite from...
Hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza at southern Israel amid renewed tensions
Hundreds of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Monday amid renewed tensions following the death of an Israeli special-forces soldier earlier in the day.
According to the Israeli Defense...
Hamas launches almost 200 rockets into Israel, thousands of Israelis run for cover
Some 180 rockets were lobbed at Israel from Wednesday night through Thursday, obliterating discussion of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Residents of the coastal city of Ashkelon also scrambled to bomb shelters—a...
Safe play area, fire protection: Boosting life in Israeli towns on the precarious Gaza...
Ilana Safaniev of Sderot, a town on Israel’s southern border with Gaza, isn’t thinking about the barrage of incendiary kites or balloons scorching the land, homes and communities of Israel’s Western Negev. She’s also...
Kids in embattled Israeli city of Sderot take time to show kites can elicit...
In a show of hope and defiance in the face of the hundreds of “terror kites” and flaming helium balloons launched into southern Israel by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, the children of the southern...