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A plenum session on the appointment of Israel Katz as Defense Minister and Gideon Sa'ar as Foreign Minister at the assembly hall of the Knesset on November 8, 2024. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 8, 2024, 1:49 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 8: Day 399 – Knesset tightens coalition after Gallant ousted
Political correspondent Sam Sokol discusses latest in Knesset legislation, including Haredi draft bill, as reporter Sue Surkes reviews rebuilding in southern communities, COP 29
By ToI Staff
'The Open Kitchen: Memories From a Home Left Behind,' a new exhibit at Asif Culinary Institute from September 2024 to mark one year since October 7. (Courtesy Asif)
September 30, 2024, 6:19 pm
Evacuees miss their kitchens, even dishwashing, in new exhibit
Tel Aviv food institute Asif helped people who lost their homes find comfort after the Hamas attacks, and now marks one year with new projects
By Jessica Steinberg
A photograph by Oren Ziv, from 'Southern Album,' an exhibit that opened June 21, 2024 at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. (Courtesy)
June 29, 2024, 7:16 am
‘A wounded landscape’: New photo exhibit captures life in Israel’s south, then and now
Historian and photographer Dana Arieli created ‘The Photographer of Things — Southern Album,’ a new exhibit at Petah Tikva Museum of Art that tells the story of the south
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: The fields of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, on the border of the Gaza Strip, where smoke rises in the distance. (Amir Tibon)
November 12, 2023, 12:40 am
Urban Israelis flock to Gaza border to tend farms left suddenly without workers
With many residents from the southern communities evacuated or called up to reserve duty, thousands of volunteers are heeding the call to help farmers pick vegetables and milk cows
By Eliyahu Freedman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, meets with mayors of Gaza border towns at IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 10, 2023 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
November 10, 2023, 6:22 pm
Netanyahu says IDF will control Gaza after war, rejects notion of international force
PM speaks to mayors of Gaza border towns on plans to rebuild after Hamas atrocities; meeting comes after premier criticized for failing to meet local leaders since Oct. 7 massacres
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Southern community council leaders meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with senior cabinet ministers and army commander, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 15, 2018. (Prime Minister's Office)
November 16, 2018, 1:21 am
Netanyahu meets southern community leaders amid criticism over Gaza ceasefire
PM, along with top ministers and IDF chiefs, presents NIS 500 million support plan for border towns in bid to quell anger over restrained response to Hamas fire
By ToI Staff
Southern residents protest against the government in Tel Aviv over lack of security for their communities. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
November 15, 2018, 8:59 pm
Hundreds from rocket-battered south protest against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv
In demonstration outside Defense Ministry, protesters block traffic and scuffle with police as they call for PM to resign over truce deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip
By Luke Tress
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Tzachi Hanegbi at a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, on February 22, 2016. (Miriam Alsterl/Flash90)
November 15, 2018, 8:04 pm
Netanyahu rebukes Likud ally for downplaying Gaza rocket fire on south
Brushing aside Tzachi Hanegbi’s apology for calling Hamas barrage ‘minor,’ PM urges patience as Israel in ‘middle of a campaign’ in Gaza, says south just as important as Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
Residents of Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip burn tires and block a road at the entrance to the city of Sderot in protest of a ceasefire agreement, November 14, 2018. (Israel Police)
November 15, 2018, 5:58 pm
Netanyahu, IDF chiefs to meet southern community leaders amid anger over Gaza
Kibbutz Movement says prime minister has neglected them, should go south to communities and ‘look residents in the eye’
By ToI Staff
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and IDF GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Shlomo (Sami) Turgeman attend the opening session of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors meetings in Kibbutz Nahal Oz. (photo credit: David Shechter)
October 27, 2014, 1:01 am
Jewish Agency grants NIS 50 million aid package to south
In wake of summer conflict, students near the Gaza border to receive scholarships; small, medium-sized businesses eligible for loans at special rates
By ToI Staff
An Israeli soldier walks in the temporarily abandoned Kibbutz Nahal Oz, southern Israel, as Hamas militants in Gaza continue to fire rockets into Israel on the 34rd day of Operation Protective Edge, August 10, 2014. (Photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
October 15, 2014, 9:26 am
20 families leave southern kibbutz after Gaza conflict
After steep decline in Nahal Oz’s population, 3 families move in; dozens visit, express interest in relocating to southern kibbutzim
By Marissa Newman
An apartment building that was damaged by the explosion from a rocket, fired in the Gaza Strip, which hit a neighboring house in Ashkelon, southern Israel, early morning on August 26, 2014. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
September 23, 2014, 6:00 pm
Cabinet approves NIS 2 billion stimulus plan for the south
Netanyahu says ‘unprecedented’ economic development plan will strengthen outlying communities, deepen hold on Gaza border area
By Tamar Pileggi
Finance Minister Yair Lapid speaks to reporters at the Government Press Office in Jerusalem on Sunday, August 31, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 31, 2014, 7:37 pm
Lapid calls for regional summit, Hamas demilitarization
Finance minister says Gaza operation costs will be covered by yearly budget, calls for PA control over border crossings of the Strip
By Marissa Newman
US President Barack Obama (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2014. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
August 15, 2014, 1:00 pm
Taking the temperature of US ties
A WSJ report leaves pundits debating the significance of the diplomatic divide, and the PM’s role; 10,000 rally for south in Tel Aviv
By Marissa Newman
Israelis gather during a protest calling on the government and the army to end Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza once and for all, Tel Aviv August 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/GALI TIBBON)
August 15, 2014, 12:08 am
Thousands demonstrate support for southern towns
Over 10,000 people gather in Tel Aviv to demand peace, quiet, and security for communities near Gaza Strip
By Stuart Winer
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