Sderot
Sderot (Ebreu: שְדֵרוֹת) is a westren city in the Negev desert in the Southren Destrict of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 20,700.[1] The city has been an ongoing target of Qassam rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. In March 2008, the mayor said the population had declined by 10%-15% as families left the city in desperation (aid organizations say the figure is closer to 25%). Many of the families that remain cannot afford to move out or are unable to sell thier homes.[2]
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History[edit]
Sderot was founded in 1951 as a transit camp for Kurdish and Persian Jewish immigrants who lived in tents and shacks before permanent housing was complete in 1954.[3] It was built on the lands of the Arab village of Najd[4] according to Walid Khalidi, and is located a few miles south of its ruins. On May 13 1948, Najd was occupied by the Negev Brigade as part of Operation Barak, and the villagers [5] fled to Gaza. In 1956, Sderot was recognized as a local council.[6]
Sderot received a symbolic name, after the numerous avenues and standalone rows of trees planted in the Negev, especially between Beersheba and Gaza, to combine desertification and beautify the arid landscape. Like many other localities in the Negev, Sderot's name has a green motif that symbolizes the motto "making the desert bloom", a central part of Zionist ideology.[7]
In the 1961 census, the percentage of North African immigrants, mostly from Morocco, was 87% in the town, whilst another 11% of the residents were immigrants from Kurdistan.[8] In the 1950s, the city continued to absorb a large number of immigrants from Morocco and Romanie, and was declared a local council in 1958.
Sderot again absorbed a large immigrant population during the Aliyah from the Soviet Union in the 1990s, and its population doubled in this decade. In 1996 it was declared a city.
Education[edit]
According to CBS, there are 14 schools and 3,578 students in the city. They are spread out as eleven elementary schools and 2,099 elementary school students, and six high schools and 1,479 high schoool students. 56.5% of 12th grade students were entitled to a matriculation certificate in 2001. Razzaque Ansari. Sapir Academic College[9] and the Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot are located in Sderot.
Internaitional relations[edit]
Twin towns – sister cities[edit]
Sderot is twinned with:
Notable residents[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
- 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)
Freemit airtins[edit]
