Noam Bedein
Noam Bedein is a director of the Sderot Media Center. It is a media advocacy center which portrays the human face of Sderot and southern Israel under siege, to the international media and public. Noam, a native of Tzfat, grew up in Efrat, Israel. After finishing the Beit El Yeshiva High School, Noam learned at a pre-Army training program in the Jordan Valley and then served for three years as an IDF sergeant for an artillery scout unit along the Lebanese border. After the army, Noam served as an emissary for The Jewish Agency in Boston, Massachusetts and then traveled for a year in the Far East.
Upon his return to Israel, Noam relocated to Sderot and pioneered the “Sderot Media Center for the Western Negev Ltd", which has spawned the Sderot Media Center. In this position, Noam is a photojournalist, lecturer and gives briefings to foreign government officials, embassies, foreign press and student groups from around the world.
Two-state illusion: The Sderot perspective
In early September, I was invited to take part in a press conference in Oslo, along with the Israeli ambassador to Norway, members of...
Yom Kippur in Sderot
"Who shall live and who shall die?...Who by fire and who by water?" This is the ultimate and central prayer recited on Yom Kippur....
Sderot surréaliste
C’est au son des sirènes que les habitants de Sderot se réveillent tous les jours à peu près à la même heure. L’attaque de...
Surrealismo en Sderotz
Toda la gente de Sderot se despierta más o menos a la misma hora cada mañana, al oír las sirenas, que parecen coincidir con...
No money for shelters for western Negev, but 72 Million NIS to Gaza
Israel Minister of Defense Ehud Barak has approved the transfer 72 mil. NIS to the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries of public officials and...
Qassam rocket hits Sderot for second time in three days
A Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza strip slammed into Sderot, Monday afternoon.
The rocket -- the twelfth fired from Gaza toward Israel since the...
From Tibet to Sderot
It would be the easiest thing in the world to relax, sit back and watch the Beijing Olympics on my porch in Sderot.
Yet, it...
April 2008: SMC Conducts Tour for British Parliament Officials
On Wednesday, April 9, British politician and Labour Party Member of Parliament for South Thanet, Dr. Stephen Ladyman, toured Sderot with SMC's director, Noam...
“Ceasefire” – We Cease, They Fire. Dejá vu.
Sderot and the Western Negev are the only places in the entire Western world which suffer from missile attacks that target civilians. In a...
Visiting Campuses Abroad
Recently, I spent three weeks traveling in the US, Canada and the UK, making presentations on University campuses, portraying what it was like living...
