Tag: Human Interest Stories

Or Adam, 45, Sderot A. Noam is two years old, he lives in Jerusalem. Idan is six years old now. He lives in a Moshav. In a green and fabulous kibbutz, Rinat is eight years old, already a...

The Residents of Sderot Express Their Thoughts about Life’s Reality through Poetry and Short Stories Anyone who lives at the Western Negev area, like me, became familiar with the fictitious calmness which rested upon our...

CJ from Georgia, USA has been playing for Kibbutz Be'eri's basketball team for the past few months. Sderot Media Center recently interviewed CJ about his experience playing basketball under Palestinian rocket fire. CJ explained...

Noam Bedein, a young resident of Sderot, Israel and creator of Sderot Media Center, traveled to Brandeis’ Rapaporte Treasure Hall this past Tuesday to discuss the violence occurring in his little town near the...

Throughout Monday morning, the Tzeva Adom sounded in communities in the western Negev, as Palestinian terrorists fired a barrage of Qassam rockets at Eshkol from Gaza. Approximately seven Qassam missiles landed in the Eshkol...

Getting Ready for the Next Round of Missile Escalation from Gaza:A personal documentary by Noam Bedein (4 min) Photo: Rick Burres In capturing a playground and a bomb shelter in the same photograph, I capture a scene...

As the six-month long ceasefire between Hamas and Israel nears to an end, residents of Sderot and the western Negev still remain under the intense threat of Palestinian rocket fire. Only this past Tuesday...

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 silence. A vision of the end of days. Broken shouts of mothers...

Tom Adam, Ninth grade, Sderot Just a normal Sderot day - another rocket alarm. You might say that we automatically run to the shelter. Quiet. This is the only time in which I manage to...

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 followed by a loud boom. The cabinet extends its finger to this...