In the Name of God
Livnat Shaubi, 23, Sderot
Ordinariness
An explosion's echo.
Smokey mushrooms in the sky.
The smell of burning.
A shout.
An alarm.
People gathering in a mass.
Women crying.
Babies whining.
The storm after the...
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....
Remembering the Yom Kippur War
Israelis have been remembering the date, October 6, 1973, the day on which the Yom Kippur War broke out, for exactly 35 years to...
JUST ANOTHER DAY
Tom Adam, Ninth grade, Sderot
Just a normal Sderot day - another rocket alarm. You might say that we automatically run to the shelter. Quiet....
Reem Balsan
Ram Balsan, Age 21, Sderot
Dawn has come, and with it,
the security alarm ‘rings’ with its timely precision.
Its ring is very strange: a calm vibration...
Ella
Author: Yaakov Benita, Age 20, Sderot
You breathed out your spirit for the last time as the sun rose.
Your spirit rose up to Heaven, and...
As Long As We Try
We look the children in the eye, but we do not understand.
How much we hurt them.
For we all know that kassams are not birds.
That’s...
For Eight Years
Yehudit Yifrach, fifth grader Sderot, Israel
For eight years we have been shocked so many times.
For these eight years we have not wanted to go...
Sderot: The Quiet War
Upon arriving in the small southern Israeli town of Sderot it is easy to remark upon just how unremarkable it is. The buildings are...
Sderot Media Center wish you a happy, peaceful, and safe year
Jewish Symbols In the Shadow of Terror
The Jewish ritual objects that remain, even under the shadow of terror, are the same symbols,that remain undamaged...