Israel Government Press Office Director, calls show “fantastic.” Jerusalem–On Monday night, October 26, the high school girls of the Sderot Media Center Community Treatment Theater...
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Sderot students ready for school bells and rocket sirens
Although the third Hamas-Israel cease-fire is still in effect, Sderot schoolchildren began the 2009 school year both excited and apprehensive. Two days before the doors to Sderot’s nine schools...
Sderot Trauma Centers in Danger of Closing Down
Imagine that you are 18 years old. You have just completed high school and in a few months you will enter the army. In the meantime, you spend your time going out with friends and working to save...
Has Life in Sderot Changed since the Operation?
Personal Reflection on Current Life in Sderot “All the world’s a stage,†says a famous Shakespeare phrase. I recall this expression from Shakespeare’s As You Like It as I travel down...
The Impact of Palestinian Rocket Terror on Israeli Children
Photo: Anav Silverman, Sderot Media Center There have been many questions bouncing around in the media this week. Why is Israel at war? Why are there so many Hamas men dead? Why are Hamas firing...
Absurdities of War
It was Tuesday, December 30. We had been running in and out of the bomb shelter behind our Sderot Media Center office throughout the day, as Palestinian rockets exploded all around. Usually, when we...
Hamas’s Winning Strategy
As most of us know, the international media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict generally portrays Israel as an aggressive occupier and militant state. Not to mention the headlines that appeared...
Worst Rocket Attack on Sderot since Ceasefire
A Palestinian rocket exploded right outside a Sderot supermarket on Wednesday evening, December 17, in one of the worst Qassam attacks on Sderot since the ceasefire began. Rocket shrapnel lightly...