http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/blog.cgi?q=1&s=1 en http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/images/logo.jpg http://www.sderotmedia.org.il http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=980&q=1&s=1 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:51:58 http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=959&q=1&s=1 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:44:11 After over 100 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli civilians over the course of just a few days, Israel struck back with an iron fist. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) blew up the Mercedes of Ahmed al-Jabaari, leader of the Hamas military wing (do they have a NON-military wing?), and mastermind behind the now infamous kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The IAF also assassinated Yahiya Abiya, head of the Hamas rocket program, and the evil man responsible for most of the...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=957&q=1&s=1 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:26:12 I’ve been to the Western Negev town of Sderot more times than I can count. For nearly three years from 2008-2010, I was in the beleaguered city regularly, as many as 2-3 times a week, doing PR work for the town's Hesder Yeshiva. Therefore I am hardly a stranger to the Tzeva Adom (code red) early warning system and having to literally run for my life . But my visit to Sderot yesterday was like no other. In short, Sderot is a real life warzone. Along with Ashkelon, Ashdod, Be’er...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=955&q=1&s=1 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:40:25 Photo: Louisa saved her owner's life in Ashkelon, Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center The coastal city of Ashkelon, population 130,000, was hit particularly hard on Sunday. In one attack, a rocket slammed into a four-story building, penetrating through the roof of the stairwell, and continuing on, leaving a large gaping hole in the floor of one apartment, and in the ceiling of the apartment below. Two people sustained injuries from the attack and five suffered shock. The rundown apartment...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=911&q=1&s=1 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:53:26 Exclusive for Sderot Media Center Dawn breaks on the city of Sderot; it's a Shabbat, the day of rest. But as they say, there's no rest for the wicked. Some found that it would be fun to play "alarm clock" with the people of Sderot. It's six o'clock AM when “Tseva Adom” alarm echoes across the city. Getting out of bed is an afterthought for most. Yet the head does not quite stay on the pillow when a sound, as loud as a clap of thunder, rips through the air. It is a...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=884&q=1&s=1 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:36:36 Sirens blare in my head. Realizing this is not a drill, I jump out of bed and dash to the closest bomb shelter. Within seconds, the room fills with American, Canadian and Israeli students, all here in fear for their lives. Boom one, that was close... boom two, that was closer... wait for it... boom three. I hope no one was hurt. This is when the phones began to ring. Listening to hysterical Jewish mothers, and even frantic fathers, it’s now the child’s role to calm the parents. ...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=889&q=1&s=1 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:18:00 http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=891&q=1&s=1 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:17:16 We walk downstairs and underground into a bomb shelter where the Sderot municipality is housed. The first words from Shalom Halevi, a Sderot native and city representative: “I understand that there are those of you who are frightened. Be cool Don’t be frightened. We are living like this 11 years.” Roy Idan Sderot Media Center Archive Over the past 11 years, thousands of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have targeted Sderot, a city in the western Negev that lies less than...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=892&q=1&s=1 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:15:52 300 rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel during the month of March but far from fleeing, LINDA GRADSTEIN finds new residents buying homes in battle-scarred Sderot. RACHEL TZADKA IS HAUNTED BY THE DAY, JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, when her father was killed by a Grad missile fired from Gaza into Ashkelon. “It was so sudden,” she tells The Jerusalem Report at a clinic for disadvantaged youth in the small town of Sderot where she works several afternoons a week. “We...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=898&q=1&s=1 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:28:51 No long showers? No loud music? Constant threat of rocket attack? Welcome to the town of Sderot, Israel. A caterpillar bomb shelter in a Sderot playground. Photos credit: Max Fruchter As one of eight children, I was shocked by the sight before my eyes. The bomb shelter looked like it held only about 25 people. Unfortunately, in most cases there are more than 25 civilians who need shelter here. Yet this isn’t what bothered me the most. The fact that there were at least five other...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=705&q=1&s=1 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:02:20 In his Poetics, Aristotle suggests that “art imitates life.” This statement is certainly applicable to the Sderot Community Treatment Theatre’s current production, Children of Qassam Avenue, a dramatic reenactment of a dozen teenage girls’ traumatic experiences under the terror of Qassam rockets - which have now been falling on their hometown for the majority of their lives. The company presents an original script jointly written by the artistic director, Livnat...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=668&q=1&s=1 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:19:04 The Logistics Section of SIBAT (Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Department of the Israel Ministry of Defense), together with COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories), are responsible for transferring humanitarian aid to Gaza. They handled the transfer of the equipment that arrived on the flotilla ships from Ashdod Port to the Defense Ministry's humanitarian aid base in Zrifin, which now await Hamas permission for transfer into the Gaza Strip. Of the...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=667&q=1&s=1 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:49:30 As a native of Maine, immediately caught my eye when scanning the news. Hamman, a South Portland video producer, describes his experience in harrowing terms, leaving his audience of readers in little doubt that Israeli soldiers are no better than the Hamas terrorists who fire rockets at Israel's civilian communities. Indeed if the Gaza aid flotilla succeeded in anything, it was in painting precisely this portrait of Israel's army to the world. Soldiers become terrorists, and terrorists...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=630&q=1&s=1 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:38:50 It is not every day that Human Rights Watch (HRW) comes out with a report that accurately highlights Hamas war crimes against Israel, but in the case of the Thai worker killed by a Gaza rocket on March 18, 2009, HRW did just that. The tragic story of Manee Singmueangphon, a Thai migrant worker who was killed when a rocket struck an Israeli greenhouse north of Gaza on Thursday March 18, was barely given any in-depth coverage in the mainstream media. Most news reports simply stated that a Thai...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=615&q=1&s=1 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:18:01 “The next Megillah reading will be at 6:30 pm sharp,” said a voice on the intercom. I was at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. It was the eve of Purim and I had just arrived to the station from Ashkelon. The rain was pouring outside and I knew there was no way I would make it in time to the Megilah reading at the synagogue I usually attend near my home. So I decided I would stay for the reading at the station, thinking to myself-not my ideal location but still--what other...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=613&q=1&s=1 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:20:27 Although news reports have frequently described the situation in Sderot as back to normal-with real estate having gone up 20 to 30 percent, 1,400 new homes approved for construction, and families returning to the city-behind the headlines the impact of previous rocket attacks are still hammering at the population. Hila Barzilai, the director of the Sderot Resilience Center (Merkaz Hosen) recently told Sderot Media Center that in the past six months following Operation Cast Lead, hundreds...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=604&q=1&s=1 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:35:49 A few days before the new year, Sderot children from the Alon Madaim Elementary School took the time to write letters and and color drawings illustrating their hopes for peace and quiet for 2010. "We are all human beings that want peace in the world, we don't want Qassams, death or fear," wrote second-grader, Shahar Ohayon, to the children of Gaza. The letters were written in the context of The Sderot Rally for Hope, held on December 31st, where Sderot residents, area officials and...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=602&q=1&s=1 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:08:12 The year 2009 brought about a fresh wave of anti-Israel rhetoric and accusations, most which cited Israel’s supposed siege on Gaza. The international press frequently cited calls by human rights groups to “end Israel’s illegal blockade” and “liberate Gaza.” Such messages have been conceived to undermine Israel and present a very misleading angle of the actual Gaza conflict. In a typical blockade, no supplies would be allowed to enter into enemy territory,...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=593&q=1&s=1 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:28:14 Sderot, Israel (31.12.09): Hours before the new year, as hundreds of pro-Palestinian and Arab demonstrators gathered at the Erez Crossing chanting "Katyushas on Ma'alot, Qassams on Sderot," while Israeli demonstrators at another Gaza viewpoint a few meters away gathered together to communicate a very different message. "A New Decade for Hope and Peace," was the theme behind the Sderot Rally for Hope, initiated by Sderot Media Center, a...]]> http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=590&q=1&s=1 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:43:11 On Dec 31, the Gaza Freedom March, a massive rally organized by the International Coalition to End the Illegal Siege of Gaza, will convene in Cairo. Over 1000 participants from 42 countries along with Israeli “peace” groups will protest against the Siege of Gaza and mark a year to Operation Cast Lead. Supporters of the Gaza march include Roger Walters (Pink Floyd), Nobel laureates, writers, film producers, British and Canadian Members of Parliaments, and more. In response to...]]>