Dimona

The growing city in Israel: 17,000 additional apartments in Dimona

Dimona will triple its population. This week, a new master plan was signed with 17,000 new housing units and major infrastructure development.

Master Plan Agreement Signing.
The puppet festival in Dimona

Dimona presents: The festival that lets you enjoy time with your kids for only NIS 10

Damaged car flipped by gas station theives in car chase, November 18, 2025.

One dead, five in custody after gas station thieves' getaway car flips in police chase

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

Construction seen at Dimona site linked to suspected Israeli nuclear program - AP


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.

Soldiers from the African Hebrew Israelite community

Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Vanunu offered a move to Oslo

Moredchai Vanunu was jailed and served an 18-year sentence after discussing his work at the Dimona nuclear reactor with a British newspaper in 1986.

Israel Israel News Mordechai Vanunu

Israel nuke agency to pay 170 scientists suffering from cancer

The issue has been in dispute for over 20 years.

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

From Dimona to DC: Israeli politicians and the media

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Labor leader Avi Gabbay have very different strategies when it comes to international media.

Netanyahu and Gabbay

A voice to be echoed for future generations

My father, Shimon Peres, loved the State of Israel with his entire being, dedicating his life to it.

Shimon Peres

Is it time to regulate Israel’s atomic agency?

Avner Cohen’s decades-long struggle with Israel’s nuke program reaches the High Court.

THE NUCLEAR reactor in Dimona.

JPost Exclusive: Israel nuclear program has less oversight than other democracies

That Israel is more secretive is not surprising in light of its unique policy of possessing 80-200 nuclear weapons – according to foreign sources – but without ever formally declaring it.

THE NUCLEAR reactor in Dimona.

PM and Bennett set to clash over new bill on running Security Cabinet

The prime minister and education minister are set for a showdown over a controversial new bill that would enable the Security Cabinet to approve overt and secret military operations.

Prime Minister Netanyahu, Tzachi Braverman, and Yisrael Katz at security cabinet meeting

Dimona nuke workers ask courts' permission to speak to media

Israel states their work is a matter of national security, but the scientists claim their right to fight for better working conditions.

Dimona nuclear reactor 521

Flouting the nuclear taboo

Did Israel consider using ‘the bomb’ during the Six Day War?

David Ben-Gurion and Shimon Peres visiting the Dimona nuclear reactor