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An explosion is seen in Gaza City after an airstrike by Israel on June 18, 2018. (AFP / MAHMUD HAMS)
June 18, 2018, 5:40 am
Palestinians fire 3 rockets at south as IDF strikes Gaza
Israeli aircraft conduct raids in northern Strip, hitting nine Hamas targets; no reports of injuries as projectiles launched toward Ashkelon; one rocket falls short
By Judah Ari Gross
Flooding in Sderot on June 13, 2018. (screen capture: Twitter/Hadashot/Robby Pereg)
June 13, 2018, 12:25 pm
Floods inundate southern Israel as freak rains batter country
Record-breaking precipitation recorded in western Negev, overwhelming storm drains in some towns
By TOI staff
Soldiers from the mixed-gender Lions of the Jordan Valley Battalion take part in an exercise in the Tzeelim army base on February 5, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
March 20, 2018, 6:03 pm
Soldier collapses on base, hospitalized in serious condition
Hospital says servicewoman stabilized, being kept in intensive care; cause of collapse not immediately clear
By Stuart Winer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony inaugurating a new fortified emergency ward at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkeon on February 20, 2018. (FLASH90)
February 20, 2018, 5:37 pm
Netanyahu puts Gaza terror groups on notice after bomb attack
PM inaugurates reinforced emergency ward in Ashkelon hospital, saying 'whoever harms us will himself be hurt'
By TOI staff
Special forces practice counterterrorism scenarios during a series of exercises in the southern region, February 4, 2018. (Israel Police)
February 5, 2018, 12:27 am
Police, army practice responses to Hamas terror infiltration in southern region
Public Security Minister Erdan warns: Palestinian terror group and Gaza Strip will 'pay a heavy price' in a future conflict with Israel
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative photo of police patrol cars lined up on December 31, 2017. (Israel Police)
January 30, 2018, 11:12 am
Massive drug sting in south nabs 23 suspects, narcotics, firearms
Year-long undercover operation comes to a head as officers raid suspects' homes in four cities
By TOI staff
Police officers at the scene where two women found dead at a home in Ashkelon, January 16, 2018. (Flash90)
January 16, 2018, 3:17 pm
Twin sisters found dead in Ashkelon apartment
Women in their 50s had been missing from work for several days; police open investigation
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative photo of a young man reading from a Torah scroll (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 19, 2017, 6:13 pm
Synagogue sexton indicted for sexually abusing minors
Yitzhak Almakayes, 63, from Ashkelon accused of kissing, assaulting boys while teaching them for their bar mitzvahs
By TOI staff
Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni arrives for a hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on February 28, 2017. (Flash90)
December 12, 2017, 3:04 am
Sexual misconduct charges against Ashkelon mayor dropped
Itamar Shimoni says 'at last justice is done,' but still on trial for bribery, fraud, breach of trust and money laundering
By TOI staff
An inscription in the ancient Luwian language detailing the fall of the Hittite empire and the conquering of Ashkelon by the 'Sea Peoples.' (courtesy Luwian Studies)
October 11, 2017, 5:00 pm
Is this huge inscription our missing link to the biblical ‘Sea Peoples’?
Newly rediscovered 29-meter-long hieroglyphic text from Turkey depicts the fall of the Hittite Empire. But only if it's authentic. And the original has disappeared
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Screenshot from the movie 'It,' thought to have helped inspire copycat clowns in towns across Israel, September 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 9, 2017, 3:46 am
Police detain 5 knife-wielding Ashkelon teens searching for ‘scary clowns’
Authorities see growing trend of fake clowns lurking in public parks accompanied by counter-trend of gangs of armed youths searching for them
By TOI staff
An aerial view of the Tamar gas-processing rig off the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, June 23, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 23, 2017, 1:13 am
Gas shortage expected following pipeline failure off Israeli waters
Repair work on a cracked pipe from the Tamar field will take days to fix, says Energy Ministry; power cuts possible
By TOI staff
US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump's departure, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 27, 2017, 1:30 pm
Netanyahu, Trump to meet on September 17
Government to remove settlers from contested Hebron home, court hears; police find 20 marijuana greenhouses in IDF training areas
By TOI staff
The scene of a suspected gangland bombing in Ashkelon on June 27, 2017. (Israel Police)
June 27, 2017, 9:49 am
Top mobster killed in latest gangland car bombing
Victim in Ashkelon explosion said to have been senior underworld figure in southern Israel; incident may have been retribution for 2016 assassination of crime kingpin's son
By Raoul Wootliff
Israel's coastal city of Ashkelon (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
From the WebJune 27, 2017, 5:39 am
Man killed in Ashkelon car blast, police suspect mob hit
Authorities are investigating incident which occurred early Tuesday morning
By TOI staff
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