Jerusalem Audience Awed by Sderot Girls’ Theater Performance on Rocket Life
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 performed the dramatic production of Children of Qassam…
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 opened, on Sunday, August…
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…
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 to Sderot,…
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…
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…
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 following this week-end’s…
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 wounded three people,…
How Sderot became an issue for a group of student journalists in DTWT
Do The Write Thing, a special seminar organized for Jewish journalist students by the Hagshama Department of the WZO and the Prime Minister’s Office in November, proved to be a very enlightening experience…
Why the Hamas-Israel Ceasefire never had a chance
Back in January 2008, the German newspaper, Der Speigel published an article covering the Qassam rocket production in Gaza. Ulrike Putz, the author of the article interviewed several Palestinians in the midst of…
Psychological trauma growing in Sderot
In a recent study conducted by NATAL (Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War), researchers discovered that close to 56% of Sderot residents have suffered in some way from Palestinian rocket…
Expectations from Sderot: The Hellish Nightmare of Raining Rockets Continues
December 19 is a significant day for Israelis civilians living on the other side of the Gaza Strip. It is the day where the Hamas-Israel ceasefire officially comes to an end and the…
