Dimona

The growing city in Israel: 17,000 additional apartments in Dimona

Dimona will triple its population. This week, a new master plan was signed with 17,000 new housing units and major infrastructure development.

Master Plan Agreement Signing.
The puppet festival in Dimona

Dimona presents: The festival that lets you enjoy time with your kids for only NIS 10

Damaged car flipped by gas station theives in car chase, November 18, 2025.

One dead, five in custody after gas station thieves' getaway car flips in police chase

 A view of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev desert outside Dimona, now called the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center.

Construction seen at Dimona site linked to suspected Israeli nuclear program - AP


Neighborhood watch: The market’s looking up in the South

With improved health and educational services and increased real-estate prices, Dimona’s star is on the rise.

Dimona

10-megawatt solar facility in Dimona to generate electricity day and night

Backup biomass station will operate in the winter when the sun isn't strong enough.

renmiller's pilot solar facility in the Negev

Leader of African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem dies

At 75, he who the Black Hebrews refer to as the “Messianic Leader of the Kingdom of God,” passes.

Ben Ammi Ben Israel

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A variety of music and theater events happening around Israel this week.

The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion

Israel's nuclear doctrine: Clarification, codification and disclosure

The primary point of Israel's nuclear forces must always be deterrence ex ante, not revenge ex post. From Israel's Strategic Future, the final report of Project Daniel, Israel, 2004.

How shall Israel best prevent involvement in any conflict involving nuclear weapons, whether as war or terrorism?

Unity under fire

Lev Echad’s thousands of volunteers help ease life in the South.

Yael Nosinovich, special education teacher in Ashkelon.

Hackers commandeer IDF Twitter, send false tweet warning of nuclear leak

Military confirms social networking account was compromised, apologizes for false tweets; IDF vows to fight against cyber terrorism.

The tweet posted on the IDF's official English-language twitter account after being hacked.

Empowering Bedouin women

The idea that Negev Bedouin women could become more independent was not something that was easily accepted by many of the men in the community.

The Al Sanabel cooperative runs a catering business in the Negev township of Hura

Black Hebrews: Police called us Sudanese, told us to leave Israel

In a police confrontation over the weekend, Black Hebrews claim police said they were illegal migrants, didn't know they had served in army.

Police car370

Vanunu pleads with High Court to allow him to leave Israel

Ex-technician at Dimona nuclear plant was imprisoned 18 years for divulging secrets related to Israel's purported nuclear weapons program.

Israel Israel News Mordechai Vanunu