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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Beersheba

Synergy7's R&D robotics lab in Beersheva. (Sali Petel)
December 15, 2024, 9:47 am
Negev-based consortium helps war-hit startups reach US, Singapore and UAE markets
Synergy7, backed by the Israel Innovation Authority, Elbit and Dell, sets up an innovation hub in Beersheba to give businesses access to tech space and develop the country’s south
By Sharon Wrobel
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev campus on the first day of class, November 3, 2024. (Gavriel Fiske/TOI)
November 7, 2024, 4:11 pm
Ben-Gurion U. balances academic standards with reservists’ needs in war’s second year
Most of Israel’s universities began studies this week, after a year of war with no end in sight; some 30% of students have served in the IDF reserves during the current conflict
By Gavriel Fiske
Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack in the Beersheba central bus station, October 6, 2024, in which Sgt. Shira Suslik (inset) was killed. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90; Israel Police)
October 6, 2024, 5:30 pm
Border cop killed, 10 wounded in terror shooting attack at Beersheba central bus station
Female officer, 19, shot dead by terrorist who opened fire at people at a McDonald’s; gunman was Israeli citizen and relative of perpetrator of 2015 attack inside same bus station
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Israelis protest calling for the release of those held hostage by the Hamas terror group in Gaza, outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 5, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 6, 2024, 2:34 am
Scaled-down rallies for hostage deal held nationwide, a year into loved ones’ captivity
Weekly rally in Tel Aviv, which has previously drawn hundreds of thousands, is capped at 2,000 by Home Front Command, amid ground op in Lebanon and brewing response to Iran attack
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. Students arrive at an Israeli high school, June 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
September 23, 2024, 8:31 pm
Beersheba girl suspended from school after voicing concern for Gazan kids
Middle school, Education Ministry claim 13-year-old suspended for 3 days to protect her from harassment during probe into incident; girl says other students verbally abused her
By ToI Staff
A Bedouin child is brought to the emergency room at Soroka hospital in Beersheba, after his family home, a shed in an unrecognized Bedouin village near Dimona, was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza, on July 19, 2014. (Dudu Greenspan/ Flash90/ File)
September 8, 2024, 9:45 pm
Government signs permits for new Beersheba hospital after 10-year delay
Medical center slated to open in 2028; Health Minister Buso says it will ‘reduce the gap in medical treatment between the center and the periphery’
By Diana Bletter
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 22, 2024, 1:45 pm
Doctor at Beersheba Hospital arrested for allegedly swearing allegiance to ISIS
Prosecutors say Soroka Medical Center specialist Muhammad Azzam pledged himself to Islamic State after Oct. 7, wished death on wounded Israeli soldiers treated at facility
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Yehuda Deri (R), chief rabbi of the southern city of Beersheba, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on December 12, 2012. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / FLASH90)
July 10, 2024, 4:51 pm
Eyebrows raised as son of late Beersheba rabbi is declared his successor at funeral
With no apparent authority to do so, ex-Sephardic chief rabbi announces at cemetery that son of Yehuda Deri will take over his father’s role as southern city’s top rabbinical figure
By ToI Staff
Shas leader Aryeh Deri (L) listens to his brother Beersheba's late chief rabbi Yehuda Deri. (Yaakov Cohen)
July 9, 2024, 5:27 pm
Yehuda Deri, brother of Shas leader and Beersheba chief rabbi, dies at 66
Deri died after complications from infection; spiritual leaders and politicians mourn rabbinical judge who was seen as leading candidate to become Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel
By Canaan Lidor
Released hostage Noa Argamani attends the funeral of her mother, Liora Argamani, at a cemetery in Beersheba, southern Israel, on July 2, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
July 2, 2024, 9:20 pm
‘You made me the strong person I am,’ says ex-hostage Noa Argamani at mother’s funeral
Liora Argamani laid to rest 3.5 weeks after daughter’s rescue from Gaza; Noa thanks her for holding on so they could be reunited one last time ‘against all odds’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Police at the scene of a double murder in Isfiya, northern Israel, April 13, 2024. (Israel Police)
May 15, 2024, 11:15 pm
Woman found dead in Beersheba apartment in suspected murder; partner arrested
Victim in her 40s found with signs of violence on her body; higher rate of femicide in Israel this year than last
By ToI Staff
Ismail Haniyeh, the Doha-based political bureau chief of Hamas, speaks to the press after a meeting with the Iranian foreign minister in Tehran on March 26, 2024. (AFP)
April 21, 2024, 3:40 pm
Sister of Hamas chief indicted for praising Oct. 7 attack, ties to terror group
Sabah al-Salem Haniyeh, one of three Israeli sisters of the exiled Hamas politburo chief, faces nearly 20 years in prison
By Jeremy Sharon
A construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
April 11, 2024, 7:57 pm
Apartment sales increased 19% in February despite ongoing Gaza war, new figures show
Housing market records 7,511 sales in month, led by new homes sold by contractors on the free market offering special deals, Finance Ministry report shows
By Sharon Wrobel
Police at the scene of a stabbing attack at the central bus station in Beer Sheva, southern Israel, March 31, 2024. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)
March 31, 2024, 10:48 am
IDF officer lightly hurt in terror stabbing at Beersheba central bus station
Attacker from nearby Bedouin city of Rahat is shot dead by another soldier at scene; another person lightly hurt by bullet ricochet
By Emanuel Fabian
Netanel Divker at the Royal Hotel near the Dead Sea on March 5, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 13, 2024, 2:38 pm
At Dead Sea hotels, lasting mental, physical traumas delay homecoming for some evacuees
Despite challenging conditions, some displaced have rejected government incentives to return, citing lingering security concerns, while others still have no homes to go back to
By Canaan Lidor
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