Sderot

From loneliness to leadership community drives economic resilience - opinion

Sderot shows how investing in children and community turns resilience into long-term economic growth and social strength.

 AMIT Makif Sderot outdoor campus and play areas
Sderot is providing 24/7 monitoring for dozens of remote farms and open areas, aiming to cut response times to incidents that include theft, vandalism, arson and suspected infiltrations, according to the nonprofit behind the initiative.

Sderot-based nonprofit launches 24/7 monitoring for farms, improving security

 Protesters in Sderot gather for the 'Gaza March,' May 14, 2024

Population in Gaza border region surpasses pre-Oct. 7 levels, data show

Heads of the Gaza border communities' municipal councils protesting outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 4, 2025.

'Gov't continues to abandon us': Gaza border community heads protest funding cuts in Jerusalem


'They're shooting at the ambulance, the station, they’re shooting everywhere'

MDA staff members realized this wasn’t just a case of missile fire; gunmen were inside the city.

 A soldier stands guard and defends the Sderot MDA station on October 7

Ayalim's Sderot student village revitalizes with courage and renewal after devastating attacks

Under the theme "Courage and Renewal," the event was attended by hundreds of Ayalim students and youth from across Israel.

Sar Shalom Jerbi, Ayalim’s CEO  Sigal Barzilai, and Vicki Dayan.

Israeli film ‘Red Flower’ copes with the carnage in Sderot - review

Also available is the docudrama One Day in October on Yes TV, by Daniel Finkelman and Oded Davidoff, which offers dramatized versions of four stories from October 7.

 A SCENE from ‘Red Flower.’

TV week: New doc. on Sderot police station, Springsteen on Disney+

The documentary makers created a meticulously detailed, dollhouse-size model to tell the story of the bombed Sderot police station after October 7.

 A SCENE from ‘The Battle for Sderot.’

Sderot's festival and its fracture: art healing amid chaos

Amid everything going on in the South, the Adama Center's three-day Festival and Its Fracture promotes unity through creativity.

  ‘I’M STILL HERE’ will open the Arava International Film Festival.

Rising from the ashes: After Oct. 7, Sapir College hopes to be a global trauma research center

The community of Sapir College was heavily affected by Oct. 7. College president Nir Kedar recalls the institution’s response, and its vision to be a global center for trauma research.

 Nir Kedar is seen at the entrance of Sapir College, just 3.5 km. from Gaza.

Solel Boneh to restore another historic building in Sderot

One year after the destruction, the police station in Sderot will be rebuilt. The station, which became a symbol on October 7, will now be reconstructed by Solel Boneh.

 The police station in Sderot.

Pillars of Eternity: Sderot Memorial honors victims of October 7 attack

"The site will tell the story of the impossibility of the city of Sderot, whose life is now mixed with blood but holds extraordinary resilience, faith, heritage, and community."

 Sderot memorial

School in session on the Gaza border: Academic year starts in Sderot

The Jerusalem Report went to Sderot on September 4 to see how schools and students were coping, and we were impressed and inspired by the schools visited.

 AMIT Makif Sderot outdoor campus and play areas

Brave MDA paramedics drove into terrorist snipers’ line of fire 

Jerusalem paramedic Hadas Ehrlich urged wounded soldier not to give up – and he survived.

 MDA Paramedic at the hospital