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Fatal kitesurfing accident at Bat Yam’s Tayo Beach: One dead, two injured due to extreme winds
A 46-year-old kitesurfer was killed and two others injured at Bat Yam’s Tayo Beach after extreme winds threw them into rocks. Authorities are investigating the tragic incident.
Jaffa police reunite 85-year-old Holocaust survivor with lost dog
State indicts Tel Aviv man with rape after alleged drugging at Bat Yam event
Palestinians breach Lachish fence; IDF and police launch manhunt
Catching the wave
HaGal Sheli in Tel Aviv and Bat Yam teaches at-risk youth how to surf.
Court gives former Bat Yam mayor Lahiani 8 months jail time on state appeal
48-year-old faces sentence on breach of public trust and fraud.
Police call for public's help in search for missing 78-year-old, Avraham Cohen
Bat Yam resident is of slim build and about 5'9" tall with blue eyes and white hair; he was last seen wearing a blue jacket and light-colored pants.
Border Police officer kills wife, self in Bat Yam
28-year-old shoots wife and then takes his own life; woman is an employee of the Israel Prison Service.
Police: Bat Yam man murders brother over car price
Victim stabbed outside mini-market he owned by brother, after two fought over few thousand shekels difference in price of a used car.
Design Terminal opens in Bat Yam
Handpicked artisans at the new studio and retail facility also volunteer in local schools, teaching skills from PhotoShop to knitting.
Egyptian court sentences Israeli to 2 years jail
24-year-old Andrei Pshenichnikov, a reported left-wing activist, sentenced to serve in prison after illegally crossing into Sinai.
Hepatitis A outbreak reported TA, Bat Yam
69 reported cases of hepatitus A – almost 20 percent of them diagnosed in young drug-addicted and homeless men.
3 arrested in suspected 2012 mob hit
The killing last September took place about a year after a string of murders in the Tel Aviv area.
A change of scenery
With an exhibition by artists from the former Soviet Union, director Joshua Simon is injecting new life into the Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art