Sderot
Sderot (Ebreu: שְדֵרוֹת) is a wastren Negev ceety in the Soothren Destrict o Israel. Accordin tae the Israel Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS), at the end o 2009 the ceety haed a total population o 20,700.[1] The ceety haes been an ongoin target o Qassam rocket attacks frae the Gaza Strip. In Mairch 2008, the mayor said the population haed declined bi 10%-15% as families left the ceety in desperation (aid organizations say the figure is closer tae 25%). Mony o the families that remain canna afford tae muive oot or are unable tae sell their hames.[2]
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[edit] History
Sderot wis foondit in 1951 as a transit camp for Kurdish an Persian Jewish immigrants who lived in tents an shacks afore permanent hoosin wis completit in 1954.[3] It wis built on the lands o the Arab veelage o Najd[4] accordin tae Walid Khalidi, an is locatit few miles sooth o its ruins. On 13 Mey 1948, Najd wis occupee'd bi the Negev Brigade as pairt o Operation Barak, an the veelagers [5] fled tae Gaza. In 1956, Sderot wis recognized as a local cooncil.[6]
Sderot received a symbolic name, efter the numerous avenues an staundalane rows o trees plantit in the Negev, especially atween Beersheba an Gaza, tae combat desertification an beautify the arid landscape. Like mony ither localities in the Negev, Sderot's name haes a green motif that seembolizes the motto "makin the desert bloom", a central pairt o Zionist ideology.[7]
In the 1961 census, the percentage o North African immigrants, maistly frae Morocco, wis 87% in the toun, whilst anither 11% o the residents wur immigrants frae Kurdistan.[8] In the 1950s, the ceety continued tae absorb a lairge number o immigrants frae Morocco an Romanie, an wis declared a local cooncil in 1958.
Sderot again absorbed a lairge immigrant population durin the Aliyah frae the Soviet Union in the 1990s, an its population doubled in this decade. In 1996 it wis declared a ceety.
[edit] Education
Accordin tae CBS, there are 14 schuils an 3,578 students in the ceety. They are spread oot as eleiven elementary schuils an 2,099 elementary schuil students, an sax heich schuils an 1,479 heich schuil students. 56.5% o 12t grade students wur entitled tae a matriculation certificate in 2001. Rafeeque Ansari. Sapir Academic College[9] and the Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot are located in Sderot.
[edit] Internaitional relations
[edit] Twin touns – sister ceeties
Sderot is twinned wi:
[edit] Notable residents
- Amir Peretz, umwhile defense minister
- Kobi Oz, lead sangster o Teapacks
- Miri Bohadana, model
- Shlomo Bar
- Laura Bialis
- Smadar Levi
- Erez Biton
- Shimon Adaf
- Haïm Ulliel
[edit] References
- Notes
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- ↑ Sapir Academic College
- References
- HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel. Yedioth Ahronoth Publishing. (Ebreu)
- Khalidi, Walid (1992). All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948.
- Sasson, Avi ed. (2010). Sderot. Ariel Publishing and Makom Company. (Ebreu)
[edit] Freemit airtins
