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Kiryat Gat

Homes in Carmei Gat, July 28, 2026 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
'A close-knit community with the amenities of a city'
Once a bargain, Carmei Gat is transforming into Israel’s newest Anglo boomtown
By Zev Stub
Filled with new homes going for less than they might in Modiin or Beit Shemesh, the swanky national religious Kiryat Gat neighborhood is attracting more and more English-speaking immigrants
Jewish world and real estate correspondent Zev Stub joins host Jessica Steinberg on today's Daily Briefing. (ToI)
May 3, 2026, 2:37 pm
Daily Briefing May 3 – Scared and angry London Jews feel UK isn’t fighting antisemitism
Reporter Zev Stub reviews latest on Golders Green stabbing, looks at economic status of Israel’s north and Haredi real estate development in south
By Jessica Steinberg and Zev Stub
Visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with US troops at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat on October 24, 2025 (Marco Rubio via X)
October 28, 2025, 6:05 am
US troops in Kiryat Gat overseeing Gaza truce turn sleepy city into unexpected hotspot
Food delivery services working around the clock to accommodate new foreign guests as online chatter picks up about whether romances might bloom between American soldiers and locals
By Deborah Danan
Dudu Biton from the Israel Antiquities Authority holds a flint core to manufacture Canaanite blades found at Nahal Qomem, near Kiryat Gat, in a discovery made public in July 2025. (Shira Lifshitz/Israel Antiquities Authority)
July 28, 2025, 3:54 pm
Rare intact 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade workshop unearthed in southern Israel
The Early Bronze Age site of Nahal Qomem near Kiryat Gat presents hundreds of artifacts, shedding new light on trade specialization in ancient Canaan
By Rossella Tercatin
Intel's manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. (Courtesy)
July 9, 2025, 8:15 pm
Slimming Intel sells off part of its Mobileye stake, as layoffs begin
US chipmaker gears up to sell 8% of its Mobileye holdings; as part of a global layoff plan, firm said to have started to summon employees in Israel to hearings before dismissal
By Sharon Wrobel
Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 11:34 am
After protests, ultra-Orthodox minister staying away from Memorial Day ceremony
Bereaved families express relief over decision, after telling Yitzhak Goldknopf to skip Kiryat Gat event and instead work on ‘recruiting yeshiva students’
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf speaks at a faction meeting for his ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party on March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 6:10 pm
Despite protest, Goldknopf refuses to step back from Memorial Day ceremony
Bereaved families tell Haredi politician to skip Kiryat Gat event, work on ‘recruiting yeshiva students’ instead; minister’s aides says ‘no negotiations underway’ to replace him
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen (right) with his father Jonathan aboard an IDF helicopter en route to the hospital soon after his release from 498 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 15, 2025. (IDF)
March 29, 2025, 5:24 pm
What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages’ only beacon
Father of released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen reflects on his son’s sense of rebirth, the struggle to bring him home, and the continuing sense of abandonment by Israel’s government
By Jessica Steinberg
Yoav Avital (right) and the late Ariel Bibas, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. (Spokeswoman, Kibbutz Nir Oz)
February 24, 2025, 10:35 am
‘He isn’t dead, he’s in his room’: Ariel Bibas’s 5-year-old friend struggles with his loss
Yoav Avital, who grew up with Ariel, asked to invent a potion that could bring his friend back, dictated a letter imagining Ariel ‘flying over Gaza’ to ‘fight the bad guys with a bow and arrow’
By Sue Surkes
The IAA excavation near Kiryat Gat showing an aerial view of the wine making operation, in an image released January 6, 2024. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
January 6, 2025, 6:42 pm
Byzantine monastery with Bible-quoting mosaic floor unearthed in southern Israel
Discovered during expansion of new Kiryat Gat neighborhood, church site includes a wine press and a mosaic floor that contains a Deuteronomy quote in Greek
By Gavriel Fiske
Intel's manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. (Courtesy)
June 11, 2024, 12:42 pm
Intel suspends planned $15 billion expansion of southern Israel chip plant
Chip giant makes no link between war in Gaza and decision to freeze extra investment in factory being built in Kiryat Gat, says it remains ‘fully committed’ to the region
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a daycare center in Israel, April 20, 2018. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
May 27, 2024, 3:11 pm
Police to indict two daycare teachers on almost 600 charges of abusing babies
Investigative team says it found hundreds of cases of abuse in hours of surveillance footage from recent months in Kiryat Gat facility
By ToI Staff
Irit Lahav sits at her temporary home in Kiryat Gat on February 14, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 4, 2024, 4:37 pm
Their dovish hopes clipped, some Gaza border residents make peace with becoming hawks
Civilians who followed Hamas into Israel to loot and vandalize communities on October 7 showed their true faces, says one Nir Oz survivor who no longer sees conciliation as possible
By Canaan Lidor
Students hold up signs reading 'Welcome Nir Oz' in Kiryat Gat on January 2, 2024. (Courtesy of the Municipality of Kiryat Gat)
January 4, 2024, 5:15 pm
Survivors of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a desert oasis, move into Kiryat Gat apartment towers
Locals from the growing southern city greet the traumatized newcomers with fanfare and a steady trickle of acts of goodwill
By Canaan Lidor
An aerial picture shows damages to a synagogue following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot on December 3, 2023. (Jack Guez / AFP)
January 4, 2024, 11:56 am
Government aims for nearly all southern evacuees to return by September, source says
Residents of towns 4-7 kilometers from Gaza border seen going home by March 1, says resettlement source; communities ravaged the most on Oct. 7 may take up to 2 years to resettle
By Canaan Lidor
Intel's manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. (Courtesy)
December 26, 2023, 1:41 pm
Intel clinches $3.2b government grant for $25b chip plant expansion in southern Israel
Amid Israel’s war with Hamas, US chipmaker confirms plan for Kiryat Gat manufacturing facility, expected to create several thousand jobs
By Sharon Wrobel
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