Beit Shemesh

Ultra-Orthodox rioters throw stones, call police 'Nazis' in protests over dead infants' autopsies

Eleven were arrested before protests began to disperse following the High Court of Justice's blocking of the planned autopsies.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of toddlers who died in a daycare, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2026
FIREFIGHTERS COMBAT a fire in Ramat Beit Shemesh, January 10, 2026.

Fire breaks out in Ramat Beit Shemesh apt., no injuries reported

Lenny Solomon at the keyboard with the Shlock Rock band at the 40th anniversary concert in Beit Shemesh.

Inside the unexpected cultural renaissance happening in Beit Shemesh

Dr. Norman Bloom.

From Miami to Beit Shemesh: A doctor’s mission to restore Hebrew pronunciation


How Beit Shemesh's female mayor is making an impact

Municipal Affairs: A year in, Beit Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch is making an impact at home and abroad

ALIZA BLOCH: The most important thing to me in our first year – apart from cleaning the city – was to change the city’s image.

Two dozen newly trained EMTS hit the streets in Beit Shemesh, filling gap

Schneider [trained EMT] is glad he is no longer the only EMT in his local synagogue. The closest Hatzalah member used to be 10 minutes from my house,” he said.

WE WERE getting used to pulling out the needle in a safe and clean way. I feel a kinship with my classmates now.

Beit Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch visits Washington

In 2014, the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington ended a 19-year-old partnership program with Beit Shemesh.

Aliza Bloch, Beit Shemesh religious-Zionist mayoral-candidate, October 2018

Archaeologists find table where Ark of Covenant once sat - report

The table was uncovered within a temple dating back to the 12th Century BCE, a time when the Israelites and Philistines were warring.

The site of an archaeological dig near Beit Shemesh

Menorahs that go above and beyond the usual for Hanukkah

All of Thau’s hanukkiot are purely decorative. Most would be a fire hazard if lit. Some are not even kosher for use and some are made with magnetic parts.

Penny Harow Thau

Grapevine November 24, 2019: Broken promises

Feili was always curious about Jews, Judaism, Israel and Zionism, and cultivated these interests as he grew older. Could hardly stay in virulently anti-Israel Iran while espousing pro-Israel views.

KFAR DAROM was a kibbutz within the Gush Katif bloc that was evacuated during the 2005 disengagement. The community has reestablished itself in the Western Negev.

1,500-year-old Byzantine Church with stunning mosaics discovered in Beit Shemesh

The building has been named the “Church of the Glorious Martyr,” after the figure to whom the church was devoted according to an inscription, and whose identity remains a mystery.

The church in Ramat Beit Shemesh.

Aliza Bloch: Carrying Beit Shemesh on her shoulders

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Aliza Bloch

Unloved former Beit Shemesh mayor to be Shas’ ninth MK

The often criticized former Mayor of Beit Shemesh might make his return as the ninth member of Shas in the Knesset

Shas MK Moshe Abutbul

Forest fires across Israel, Firefighting planes deployed

Several firefighting teams and planes across Israel are currently working to extinguish three forest fires in Beit Shemesh, Mt. Yaaran and Kfar Mash'had

Israeli firefighter helps to extinguish wildfire near Beit Shemesh