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


'We're left behind': Sderot mother shields children during Hamas rocket fire

Gilat, a resident of Sderot, shielded her baby and two daughters under her as sirens blared in the southern city.

 Israeli soldiers standing near a graffiti at the site of the Old Sderot Police Station that was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, March 11, 2024.

As defense chiefs confront Netanyahu over Gaza's 'day after,' three IDF divisions back in Gaza

The IDF said it had attacked over 150 targets on Saturday-Sunday, including using a wide range of air and artillery power, a heavy increase in the use of more destructive Israeli war machines.

 IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. April 18, 2024.

Signs of resilience: Carrefour opens new branch in Sderot

Ahead of Independence Day, Carpour marks a year in Israel with the opening of its 90th branch in Sderot.


'I got to meet the soldiers who I had treated. It made everything worthwhile'

The story of veteran MDA staff member Oren Banita from Kibbutz Mefalsim.

 A view of a bomb shelter in which people were killed while they sought refuge during the October 7 killing and kidnapping spree by Palestinian Hamas gunmen from Gaza, in Kibbutz Mefalsim in southern Israel, December 22, 2023

'They shot the ambulance, they shot the station, they are shooting everywhere'

MDA Sderot station. The story of Elor Tawil.

 Elor Tawil, volunteer at the Sderot MDA station

Treating an injured colleague in the living room

The heroic story of Sderot MDA station on October 7.

 MDA Ambulance

Ayalim Village: Attracting students to Sderot with a 7 million investment

Ayalim Association, with support from the Jewish National Fund & Sderot Municipality, refurbishes its student village, offering subsidized rent & cultural activities post-attack.

 The village of the Ayalim Association in Sderot before 7.10

Café Greg reopens Sderot branch six months after war


Israel Prize winners announced, among them Netanyahu critic Eyal Waldman

After this year's prize ceremony being roiled in controversy, Education Minister Yoav Kisch announces the full list of winners of Israel's most prestigious prize.

 Education Minister Yoav Kisch speaks at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, March 19, 2024.

Sderot Cinematheque to host festival after city suffered on October 7

Excitement is running high ahead of the reopening in the city that suffered over 50 civilian and 20 police casualties on the day of the Hamas massacre.

 THE SDEROT Cinematheque.