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

Knesset rejects international nuclear oversight

Asked by Zahalka if Israel had a nuclear plant in Dimona, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Israel made sure there would be no nuclear weapons in Iraq and Syria.

JULY 4, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN

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

Is a Disneyland theme park coming to Israel?

“We are very good at many things in Israel – hi-tech, medicine – I think it is also time for us to be good at something that is fun and enjoyable."

MARCH 6, 2018ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

Disney characters attend the 25th anniversary of Disneyland Paris at the park in Marne-la-Vallee, near Paris, France, March 25, 2017

January 3, 2018: Unrest in Iran

Iran, MK Ya’acov Litzman, and the rabbi from Dimona.

JANUARY 2, 2018ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The lost and found tribe

Inside the African Hebrew Israelite community of Dimona.

DECEMBER 17, 2017ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN

MEMBERS OF the AHI community in East London, South Africa, with Dimona community leader, Minister Ahmadiel Ben Yehuda (the tallest) in the center.

Trends past and future: The Curtain Up Festival presents 11 new works

This year, the Ministry of Culture and Sport put the festival in the hands of two new artistic directors, Mate Moray and Itzik Galili.

NOVEMBER 15, 2017ByORI J. LENKINSKI

The Curtain Up Festival presents 11 new works

The expiration date for bigotry has long passed

Whether a Mizrahi sabra, Afro-Bedouin, Ethiopian or Sudanese asylum seeker, each labors under this oppressive burden and strangling cloud of discrimination.

OCTOBER 14, 2017ByAHMADIEL BEN YEHUDA