Beersheva
Israeli American Professor Daniel Chamovitz is set to take over where his predecessor, Professor Rivka Carmi, the first woman president of an Israeli university and there for 12 years, took off.
The second annual Negev Human Resources Conference brings new jobs to a city marked by development—economically, industrially and demographically.
As Hamas continued to lob rockets on Israeli population centers in southern Israel on Tuesday morning, IDF spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis said the IDF will begin a call-up of reserve soldiers.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have denied any involvement in the Grad rocket launch on Israel, leading security experts to argue that Iran is behind the attack.
The Home Front Command lifted security restrictions on Gaza-border communities on Thursday after a night without rocket fire from Gaza. The decision was made by the IDF and Israel’s Security Cabinet.
AFP’s own photos demonstrate that the home was destroyed, and the accompanying caption makes clear that a house “was hit.”
Despite launching a powerful rocket deep inside Israel on Wednesday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was sighted walking through the streets of Gaza in broad daylight on Thursday.
Egyptian intelligence officials hold urgent meetings with heads of Gaza’s terrorist groups after Israeli Air Force pounds enclave in response to rocket fire that hit Beersheva home.
Clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza rioters continued, with Gazans attacking and damaging the border fence with explosives.
“Israel views with utmost gravity the attacks against it on the fence, on the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip, on Beersheva—everywhere. I said, at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, that if these attacks do not stop—we will stop them,” said the Israeli prime minister.
The mother woke her children and evacuated them to the home’s bomb shelter just seconds before the medium-range grad rocket smashed the house deep inside Israeli territory.
Mayor Ruvik Danilovich said that Israel must act more forcefully against these rocket attacks after his city of more than 205,000 people was targeted.
