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

Dimona - The Likud’s desert stronghold

The Periphery: Why do residents of Dimona continue to pledge allegiance to Bibi?

FEBRUARY 7, 2020ByHERB KEINON

ONE RESIDENT said he remembers Dimona when entire neighborhoods had only one television. ‘Now everyone has one. The Likud changed that.’

Israeli F-35 jet accidentally reveals location over nuclear facility

According to the source, the aircraft revealed itself at an altitude of 31,000 feet over the nuclear facility when the pilot turned on a non-encrypted transponder.

JANUARY 21, 2020ByLEON SVERDLOV

An IAF F-35 plane at the bi-annual Blue Flag drill a massive exercise with pilots from the United States, Greece, Germany and Italy

Experts agree Dimona nuke reactor can exceed original life expectancy

"The full lifespan of a nuclear reactor is customarily considered to be 40 years... a reactor’s lifespan may be doubled through improvements and upgrades without diminishing its safety.”

JULY 12, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

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

Tehran Imam threatens missile attack on Dimona nuclear power plant

Imam Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani also warned the US against a military attack on Iran.

JULY 7, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE

Three convicted in Dimona nuclear research agency fraud

Besides the three individual defendants, the case also led to charges against two entities used by the defendants.

JULY 4, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

Analysis: How does the new US-Russia nuke arms race impact Israel?

Russia seems intent on developing asymmetric nuclear abilities and this can only be bad news for Israel.

FEBRUARY 3, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump gestures during a joint news conference with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, July 2018

Is Israel's nuclear reactor still safe?

With threats to Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona in the news frequently of late, the elephant in the room has been absent from the front pages.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

Israel nuclear chief: We are upgrading defenses at Dimona reactor

Director General Zeev Snir also pleaded for strong actions against Iran and Syria, "Iran and Syria pose significant proliferation threats to the region, and the world."

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018ByYVETTE J. DEANE