Ashkelon

May 12, 2022, 6:52 pm

Netanyahu supporter named as woman who sent threatening letters to Bennett

Political activist Ilana Sporta Hania, 65 of Ashkelon, was arrested earlier this week for mailing letters containing bullets to members of the PM’s family

By TOI staff

Apartments under construction in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. (Lior Mizrahi/ Flash90)

April 25, 2022, 4:36 pm

Construction worker, 68, falls to his death from crane in Ashkelon

Medics declare man dead at scene after he plunges 10 meters in new Ir Hayayin neighborhood; police open an investigation; 12th death in industry this year, says lobby group

By Stuart Winer

Police chief Kobi Shabtai ahead of his testimony before the Meron disaster commission, in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

April 15, 2022, 9:57 pm

Top cop’s car flips en route to seder, two passengers lightly hurt

Commissioner Kobi Shabtai’s vehicle apparently suffers popped tire on Route 6 while on way to Ashkelon for Passover dinner

By TOI staff

A police officer hospitalized after being wounded in a stabbing attack in Ashkelon, April 12, 2022 (Israel police)

April 12, 2022, 5:55 am

Palestinian stabs policeman at Ashkelon construction site, is shot and killed

Officer lightly wounded; was investigating the suspicious individual when he drew a knife and attacked

By TOI staff

Police and soldiers stand near the body of a man who allegedly snatched a servicewoman's gun, outside Ashkelon on April 10, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

April 10, 2022, 9:37 pm

Amid terror wave, Jewish man shot dead after snatching soldier’s gun near Ashkelon

Jewish Israeli, said suffering from mental illness, is shot by commander of IDF’s Binyamin regional brigade; servicewoman taken to hospital with light injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Police at the scene of a suspected underworld attempted assassination in Ashkelon, March 20, 2022. (Israel Police)

March 20, 2022, 1:09 pm

Son of crime boss seriously injured in suspected assassination attempt in Ashkelon

CCTV footage shows gunman shooting Nissim Domrani at point blank range, then fleeing scene

By TOI staff

Undated photo of Holocaust survivor Naomi Perlman. (Courtesy Perlman family)

February 6, 2022, 2:23 pm

Holocaust survivor injured by Gaza rocket during last year’s fighting dies at 91

Naomi Perlman was seriously wounded when missile slammed into her Ashkelon home, killing her Indian caregiver; in death, family says, she was ‘released’ from 9 months of suffering

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative. Israel Police in Bat Yam. on February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/ Flash90/ File)

January 25, 2022, 11:55 am

Three family members stabbed in their home in brawl with visitors

Two men suffer serious injuries, third in moderate condition after fight; police hunt for perpetrators

By TOI staff

Religious Affairs Minster Matan Kahana in Meron, northern Israel, on January 4, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

January 6, 2022, 9:31 pm

Man indicted for death threat against minister over religious reforms

Suspect, in his 50s, called Matan Kahana’s office and warned he will ‘end up like Rabin’

By TOI staff

The scene where an apartment building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on May 11, 2021 (Flash90)

December 7, 2021, 6:41 am

Six months after Gaza conflict, battered Ashkelon no better protected from rockets

Southern city was the most heavily targeted in May, with two fatalities and tens of thousands of residents unable to access shelters or protected rooms. Nothing has changed since

By atar nussbaum

A view of the oil leak in the Arava area of southern Israel, on December 9, 2014 (Environmental Protection Ministry)

November 2, 2021, 5:33 pm

State-owned company, 4 executives indicted over massive 2014 desert oil spill

Prosecutors blame the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and its officials for ‘one of the biggest incidents of ecological damage the country has ever seen’

By TOI staff

Israelis at a Red Sea beach close to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's oil terminal in Eilat, southern Israel, February 10, 2021. (Menaham Kahana/AFP)

October 22, 2021, 12:33 pm

UAE says nixing pipeline agreement won’t damage ties with Israel

Contradicting company’s claim, senior official says deal to ship Gulf crude to Europe overland via Israel — opposed by environmentalists — has nothing to do with Emirati government

By Sue Surkes

Illustrative image: Children sit together inside a street shelter, in anticipation of the Code Red siren alerting of incoming rockets, in the Southern Israeli town of Nitzan, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014. (Flash 90)

October 18, 2021, 7:54 pm

IDF blames human error for false rocket alarm in south

Military says alert system functioning fine after sirens accidentally sounded in Ashkelon and nearby towns

By Judah Ari Gross

Police intervene in an Extinction Rebellion protest against the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's deal with an Israeli-United Arab Emirates consortium to channel Gulf crude through Israel, from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, Ashkelon, October 17, 2021. (Screenshot)

October 17, 2021, 1:49 pm

Extinction Rebellion blocks entrance to oil pipeline company in Ashkelon

Environmental activists protest oil deal signed by Israeli state company and an Israeli-UAE consortium, as climate demonstrations are held nationwide over weekend

By Sue Surkes

Workers repair a section of pipe in southern Israel owned by the Europe Asia Pipeline Company following a leak of crude oil, August 30, 2021. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

August 31, 2021, 5:24 pm

Environment Ministry opens criminal probe into pipeline company’s oil leak

Europe Asia Pipeline Company staff works through the night to repair 12-meter section of pipe in southern Israel, remove 800 tons of polluted soil

By Sue Surkes