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


Reviving Sderot: SafeSpace Complex for Small Businesses and Start-ups

Sderot's greenhouse launched SafeSpace this week, a complex supporting small businesses and startups in the area, sponsored by Bank Hapoalim and the Sderot Development Fund.


Osem Nestle establishes a fund to support the residents of Sderot

To boost the city's industry and support the younger generation, the group is setting up a fund to focus on technological education for residents, with millions of shekels allocated.


Betrayal: Why a vital emergency room won't be built in Sderot - opinion

The Likud's betrayal may be evident in Sderot's ER funding remaining in limbo whereas for airport staff, who may vote for the party in next primary, it is allotting generous tax exemptions

  Mayor of Sderot Alon Davidi and Netanyahu. The latter would count him more if he was backed by thousands of functionaries

Sderot students have gone back to school in their city, safety concerns remain

Principals are required to know and observe safety guidelines set by the Israel Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

 The activities of the Sderot Resilience Complex supported by KKL-JNF.

Israel pays tribute to the Bedouin heroes of October 7 - interview

As employees of the kibbutzim, Dahesh’s family knew many of the victims of the massacre, he said, adding that he attended 25 funerals and continues to visit his friends where they are displaced to.

 SHIN BET Director Avi Dichter (L) greets Anir Abu Dabes, a Bedouin MDA medic from Rahat, who was among the first responders to arrive in Ofakim, saving lives while under fire, as Avi Benlolo, CEO of The Abraham Global Peace Initiative, who spearheaded the tribute, looks on.

Four months into the war, Israel’s South needs help and healing

Since the war broke out on October 7, KKL-JNF has deployed its resources in Israel’s South to help those most in need.

 KKL-JNF memorial site in the Re’im Forest.

Finding hope amid the killing fields - opinion

This is our moment to be gutsy and inspired, to make Israel flourish again, like the red anemones making the Supernova killing fields bloom.

 ITAMAR ALUS reenacts his showdown with one of the Hamas invaders of Ofakim.

From 30,000 to 5,000: Sderot in the midst of war

KKL-JNF is Reviving Hope in a Shattered City

 People queue as Israelis are evacuated from the southern town of Sderot, near Israel's border with Gaza, October 15, 2023.

Mayor of Sderot calls for evacuated residents to return home

Mayor Alon Davidi brought up a plan that should allow for "resettlement" in the country by paying grants to all residents who agree to leave their hotels and return to the city voluntarily.

 SDEROT MAYOR Alon Davidi at the scene of rocket damage, Oct. 24.

Don't underestimate the millennials and zoomers of the Israel-Hamas War

Despite their wounds, they all want to get back in the fight – together they will win this war.

 ISRAELI FORCES outside the entrance to the south of Sderot, with Hamas to the west, on October 8.