Dimona

Israel’s Bedouin community open homes to victims of Dimona, Arad strike

Israel's Bedouin community rushed to support over 100 people wounded after an Iranian missile destroyed residential buildings in Dimona and Arad.

MARCH 24, 2026|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Sager Abu Srehan, vice principal at the Amal Reut School, was one of the first to extend his hand to those impacted by the Iranian attacks in Arad and Dimona.

Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter speaks to the media at the site of the recent shooting outside the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Iranian IRGC, Basij units skipping duty as cracks in Tehran's regime widen, ambassador says

"The edifice of this tyrannical regime is cracking. It has not opened up to wide chasms yet, but that's the direction it's going,” Leiter said.

MARCH 23, 2026|BySAM HALPERN

View of the Orot Rabin Power Plant at Sadot Yam beach, central Israel, May 20, 2023

IRGC signals escalation, threatens energy sites in Israel, Middle East

Iran's leadership is said to be taking a hardline approach under which there will be no retreat in the war, even at the cost of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.

MARCH 23, 2026|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A view of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev desert outside Dimona, now called the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.

Israel's open secret: Why is Dimona at the center of Israel’s nuclear weapon ambiguity? - explainer

In the 1960s, then prime minister Levi Eshkol vowed that “Israel will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons into the region.” The sentiment has been repeated by Israeli officials since.

MARCH 22, 2026|BySAM HALPERN

African Americans are threatened with imminent deportation from Israel

An open letter to Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Ayelet Shaked and Nachman Shai

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021ByJONATHAN KESSLER, A’SHANTI GHOLAR, JOE PERLOV, STAV SHAFFIR

MEMBERS OF THE Black Hebrews community protest against deportation orders, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, in June.

Netanyahu's publicity stunts harmed spy operations - ex-Mossad chief Halevy

"Netanyahu's [public] statements caused the Mossad problems with clandestine disruption operations," said the former spymaster.

JUNE 9, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files that prove Iran’s nuclear program in a press conference in Tel Aviv, in 2018.

A late-night missile attack that sums up all of Israel's fears - analysis

The Syrian missile landing near Dimona illustrates how dangerous this battle is. Had it struck inside the reactor compound, Israelis would be waking up to a very different reality.

APRIL 22, 2021BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

View of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev Desert outside Dimona

Protektzia at the airport: solidarity’s antithesis - Analysis

Protektzia has long been a fixture of Israeli life, but not a constructive fixture contributing to equality or fairness.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021ByHERB KEINON

A face mask is seen on the bust of David Ben-Gurion at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Why is Israel engaging in new construction at the Dimona nuclear site?

Hezbollah, Iran and Hamas have all at different times explicitly or implicitly made it known that in a larger conflict they might try to target Dimona.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB