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Participating youth at work in the Quantum program, creating custom items to be sold. Credit: Courtesy of Goldie Sternbuch.
Goldie Sternbuch: Empowering Israel’s vulnerable youth through enterprise
Quantum, the NGO she founded, is now developing the Wohl Q Center in the lush setting of Gefen Park in Beit Shemesh.
Rochel Grosz
June 9, 2025
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and his wife Ayala after being attacked in Beit Shemesh, May 15, 2025. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.
Ben-Gvir, wife attacked by anti-Zionist haredim in Beit Shemesh
Ayala Ben-Gvir was "attacked and injured" by the rioters as officers attempted to break up the crowds, police said.
JNS Staff
May 15, 2025
Ancient vessels unearthed during an archaeological dig in a 5,000 year-old settlement near the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority.
Ancient settlement attests to origins of urban development in land of Israel
The site in Hurvat Husham reveals some of the first characteristics of the transition from village to urban life, said the excavation managers.
JNS Staff
Oct. 29, 2024
Sgt. Binyamin Meir Airley. Credit: Courtesy of Jennifer Averbuch Airley.
Fallen oleh paratrooper was ‘more Israeli than the sabras’
Sgt. Binyamin Meir Airley, 21, was killed in action in north Gaza.
Amelie Botbol
Oct. 9, 2024
The Jerusalem District Court, July 9, 2015. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Three Israelis arrested for harming national security at Iran’s behest
Elimelech Stern, from Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem, was charged with illegal contact with a foreign agent.
July 16, 2024
A bus filled with children rolled over at the Eshtaol intersection near Beit Shemesh, Israel, on Sept 27, 2023. Photo by Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS.
Two seriously injured as bus filled with kids rolls over near Beit Shemesh
The vehicle was carrying members of the Ariel religious Zionist youth movement, some of whom were sent to the hospital.
Sept. 27, 2023
A Jewish man blows a shofar horn in Meron in northern Israel on Dec. 1, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Major collection of shofars goes on display in Beit Shemesh
A new exhibition in the city's Biblical Museum of Natural History showcases one of the largest collections of the quintessential Jewish instruments in the world.
Sept. 12, 2023
Extricating an oil lamp from a crevice between boulders. Photo by B. Zissu/ Te’omim Cave Archaeological Project.
Cave near Beit Shemesh possibly used for necromancy in Roman times
The Te’omim Cave furnishes a test case for the emerging discipline of the “archaeology of magic.”
July 19, 2023
Minister of Education Yifat Shasha-Biton and Beit Shemesh mayor Aliza Bloch at the opening of the new school year at a school for Haredi boys in Beit Shemesh, Aug. 28, 2022. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
My recipe for Israeli unity
Beit Shemesh is an example of what can happen when all communities are respected and appreciated.
Aliza Bloch
May 8, 2023