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Yair Golan, leader of The Democrats party and a former IDF deputy chief of staff, speaks during an election campaign rally in Netanya, Israel, August 27, 2026. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
September 7, 2026, 2:16 pm
Golan: If Israel maintains liberal values, ‘woke’ critics will have less ‘ammunition’
Ben Gvir takes down video of himself taunting Palestinian prisoners after complaint to election panel; Shas reportedly considering including IDF officer on electoral slate
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
View of Beersheba on January 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 9, 2025, 5:26 pm
Cabinet pledges NIS 1.2 billion to Beersheba for new light rail, defense R&D hub
Development plan to include new police station, expansion of IDF Southern Command HQ, and increase in physical and mental health personnel
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene of an Iranian ballistic missile impact in Beersheba, June 20, 2025. (Flash90)
June 20, 2025, 9:58 am
For second day in row, Iran missile hits Beersheba, damaging buildings, wounding 7
Iran planned larger barrage on southern city; none seriously hurt; IDF says four drones downed overnight; dozens of targets hit in wave of Israeli airstrikes on Tehran
By Emanuel Fabian
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen at the entrance to the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, March 9, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 10, 2023, 2:15 pm
Bereaved parents said to ask to bar Ben Gvir from Beersheba Memorial Day ceremony
Mayor tells parents that city has no control over who attends ceremonies organized by Defense Ministry in military cemeteries; urges leaving politics out of sensitive day
By ToI Staff
File: Ultra-Orthodox children on the first day of school in Neve Yaakov in Jerusalem, August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
January 8, 2023, 8:06 pm
170 local council leaders say they will oppose funding private Haredi schools
Mayors from across country reject coalition agreements that would see local municipalities finance ultra-Orthodox institutions that teach as little as 55% of state curriculum
By Ash Obel and Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a ministerial meeting in Jerusalem on November 15, 2021, to discuss violent crime in the Arab community. (Haim Zach/GPO)
November 15, 2021, 3:21 pm
As violence surges in Arab community, PM says situation finally being dealt with
Bennett tells panel that ‘chronic’ problem is being addressed; after mass brawl outside hospital, Beersheba mayor says government has lost control
By ToI Staff
Beersheba Mayor Ruvik Danilovich received an award for his achievements in the southern city during a ceremony at the Knesset on June 23, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 18, 2019, 6:38 pm
Beersheba mayor said to reject offer to be Labor No. 2
Opposition party chief Avi Gabbay also rebuffed by ex-Yesh Atid MK Haim Jelin, to whom he reportedly offered 10th place on electoral slate
By ToI Staff
Israeli security forces inspect a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on October 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 17, 2018, 7:16 pm
EU says rocket fire toward Israel ‘completely unacceptable’
European body says the firing of missiles from Gaza must stop immediately, and that only a political solution can bring an end to ‘the cycle of violence and despair’
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
From L to R: National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi hold a situational assessment near the Gaza border on October 17, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)
October 17, 2018, 4:20 pm
PM vows ‘forceful’ response to Gaza as violence surges
Netanyahu meets with top security officials near border with Palestinian enclave after rocket strikes a home in Beersheba, IDF bombs 20 targets in Strip
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Israeli security forces inspect a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on October 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 17, 2018, 10:26 am
Netanyahu to hold consultations with defense chiefs after rocket hits Beersheba
Energy minister calls Abbas the ‘architect’ of violence from Gaza; opposition lawmakers accuse government of failing to prevent escalation
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a Dan bus. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
November 30, 2016, 12:31 am
Israeli bus company bows to pressure, drops announcements in Arabic
Following widespread outrage by Beersheba’s residents and mayor, Transportation Ministry orders that only Hebrew can be used
By ToI Staff
Police officers and rescue workers stand near a van that plowed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice on July 14, 2016. (Valery Hache/AFP)
July 15, 2016, 1:53 pm
Not Nice news in France and Israel
Late-night terror attack in southern France gets only minimal coverage as papers go to print; interrogation of Netanyahu’s aide is the talk of the town
By Ilan Ben Zion
A man rides his electric bike past a mural set up near a construction site in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. April 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
June 8, 2015, 12:43 pm
Beersheba puts brakes on electric bikes as police mull regulation
Citing safety concerns, southern city to clamp down on motorized bicycles; police demand cyclists pass driving tests
By Avi Lewis
Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks at the dedication of Beeresheva's Advanced Technologies Park (Photo Credit: Dani Machlis/BGU)
September 8, 2013, 2:47 am
Gala opening for Beersheba Advanced Technologies Park
The capital of Israel’s south is set to become the capital of Israel’s high-tech and cybersecurity industry, with the action centered at a new high-tech area
By David Shamah
Inspectors at the site of a rocket strike in Beersheba last year. (photo credit: Dudu Grunshpan/Flash90)
November 11, 2012, 6:17 pm
Beersheba mayor calls for decisive end to ‘war of attrition’ with Gaza
Chief of Staff Benny Gantz convening special meeting on rocket barrage in south
By Ilan Ben Zion
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