Sderot

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Sderot
Sderot coat of arms
Basic data
hebrew : שדרות
arabic : سديروت
State : IsraelIsrael Israel
District : south
Founded : 1951
Coordinates : 31 ° 32 '  N , 34 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 31 ° 31 '34 "  N , 34 ° 35' 38"  E
Height : 93  m
Area : 4.472  km²
 
Residents : 26,455 (as of 2018)
Population density : 5,916 inhabitants per km²
 
Community code : 1031
Time zone : UTC + 2
 
Community type: city
Sderot (Israel)
Sderot
Sderot

Sderot or Sederot ? / i , ( HebrewAudio file / audio sample שדרות, in German "Boulevard", Arabic سديروت, DMG Sidīrūt ) is a city in southern Israel . The city is located in the western part of the Negev desert not far from the northern Gaza Strip .

General information

In 2018, Sderot had 26,455 inhabitants. Around forty percent of these are new immigrants who only moved from the former Soviet Union after 1990. Sderot was settled in the years after the establishment of the State of Israel (1948) and, like many other developing cities, was given targeted support. However, the city could not develop into a regional center.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz has a house in Sderot. The former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon owned a farm near the city .

The Sapir College , located south of the city in the district of Scha'ar HaNegev , entered into an academic partnership with the Trier University of Applied Sciences in December 2005 . Organized by the college and held annually since 2002, the international Cinema South Festival is one of the most important cultural events in southern Israel. A special focus is a program for local Arab-Palestinian cinema.

history

Qassam rockets fired at Sderot are kept in the police station.
Street bunker (front), bus stop bunker (rear) in Sderot

Sderot was founded in 1951 on the land of the Palestinian village of Najd ( Arabic نجد, DMG Naǧd), the inhabitants of which had been expelled from the Hagana to Gaza in 1948 and the village itself was completely destroyed. The former residents and their descendants still live as refugees in the Gaza Strip .

In 1958 Sderot became an independent municipal administration and in 1996 a city ​​administration .

Sderot achieved international fame because from April 16, 2001 it was repeatedly attacked from the nearby Gaza Strip. In the evening of the first day alone, 5 mortar shells hit the city.

On June 28, 2004, people died for the first time in such an attack, 49-year-old Mordechai Yosepov and 4-year-old child Afik Zahavi.

On September 29, 2004, two young children were killed in a Qassam rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. This and other attacks triggered the "Days of Repentance" military action by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. Since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in the summer of 2005, attacks have increased dramatically. The number of rockets fired on Israel, mostly on Sderot, rose to over 8,600 between 2001 and January 2009.

Because of the attacks since 2004, Sderot has been home to the only serious component of the tactical high-energy laser system, the early warning radar developed by an Israeli company. It works about eighty percent of the time. From the sounding of the early warning system ( “Tseva Adom” , in English “color red”) to the impact of the rocket, however, there are only about fifteen seconds to get to safety.

Ayala-Haya Abukasis died on January 17, 2005 after she was seriously injured in a missile attack on January 15, 2005.

In mid-November 2006 a large number of rocket attacks took place, killing two more on the 16th and 21st and seriously injuring some people. The attacks continued in the following weeks; a delegation of 70 diplomats, who visited the city on November 23 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni , left the city just 20 minutes before another attack with Qassam rockets.

In May 2007 there were two more fatalities, Shirel Friedman, 32 years old, died on 21st and Oshri Oz 36 years old on May 27, 2007.

On December 12, 2007, more than 20 rockets fell on Sderot, whereupon the city's mayor, Eli Moyal, unexpectedly announced his resignation. In January and February 2008, over 1,000 rockets were fired at Sderot; a man was killed on the campus of Sapir College at the end of February. In the period that followed, there were further rocket attacks triggered by the Israeli Army's Operation Cast Lead military action in the Gaza Strip.

Roni Yihye, 47 years old, was killed in rocket attacks on February 27, 2008, and Shir-El Friedman, 35 years old, on May 19, 2008.

In November 2010, the first two batteries of the Iron Dome mobile missile defense system were deployed to protect Sderot.

On June 29, 2014, a paint factory in the industrial area burned down completely after a rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Two workers were burned. This was the first direct hit on a target in Israel since rocket fire resumed in mid-June. More rockets destroyed a residential building and a student residence. The increase in rocket fire triggered the Israeli Army's Operation Protective Edge from July 8, 2014.

Residents

The Israeli Central Statistical Office gives the following population figures for Sderot in the censuses of May 22, 1961, May 19, 1972, June 4, 1983, November 4, 1995 and December 28, 2008:

Year of the census 1961 1972 1983 1995 2008
Number of inhabitants 3,539 7,638 9,014 16,600 19,416

Kibbutz Migwan

Migwan (Hebrew: מגוון, German: variety) is a small kibbutz within the city of Sderot.

The kibbutz was founded in 1987. Since its foundation, the kibbutz has belonged to the left-Zionist kibbutz association ha-Kibbutz ha-Arzi (state kibbutz association ), which, however, was merged into the umbrella organization ha-Tenua ha-kibbutzit (the kibbutz movement) in 1999. In 2005, around 50 people lived in the urban kibbutz. Migwan is a modern kibbutz with traditional influences. It owns a collective industry with joint ventures, shared cultural facilities and events, and weekly gatherings. In contrast to the traditional socialist kibbutzim, Migwan has private property such as income and private real estate. Today the kibbutz is home to around 10 families as well as internet and service companies .

mayor

City administration

  • - 2007 Eli Moyal
  • 2008 - 2013 David Buskila
  • 2013 - serial Alon Davidi

Chairman of the municipal administration

Town twinning

literature

Web links

Commons : Sderot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Kifah Abdul Halim: Film Festival "Cinema South": A cultural festival focuses on the south of Israel. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office, July 13, 2017, accessed October 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ The School of Audio and Visual Arts at Sapir College. In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office. October 2016, accessed October 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ The Cinema South International Film Festival. In: Embassy of Israel, London. July 2, 2014, accessed October 10, 2017 .
  6. ^ Robert Fisk : Wiped from Israel's maps: The true inhabitants of Sderot . In: Belfast Telegraph , November 26, 2012.
  7. ↑ Both attacked and convicted .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Israeli Embassy, ​​November 21, 2006@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / nl-israel.cti-nm.de  
  8. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , April 18, 2001, p. 3
  9. ↑ mfa.gov.il Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English) accessed on July 18, 2018
  10. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 1, 2004, p. 5
  11. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk
  12. ↑ mfa.gov.il Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English) accessed on July 18, 2018
  13. ^ Sderot victim was a Muslim married to a Jew .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Jerusalem Post, November 16, 2006@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / fr.jpost.com  
  14. ↑ Man dies of wounds sustained in Qassam strike on Sderot . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , November 22, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  15. ↑ Woman killed, man seriously hurt in Qassam strike on Sderot . ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , November 15, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  16. ↑ Deadly missile attack . FAZ , November 15, 2006
  17. ↑ Qassams hit Negev, day after deadly Sderot strike . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Haaretz , November 16, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  18. ^ Meeting between advisers from Olmert and Abbas; Erekat: positive atmosphere . ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Israeli Embassy, ​​November 23, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nlarchiv.israel.de
  19. ↑ mfa.gov.il Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English) accessed on July 18, 2018
  20. ^ Missile war against Israel - injured in Ashkelon and Sderot . haGalil.org, February 28, 2008
  21. ↑ mfa.gov.il Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English) accessed on July 18, 2018
  22. ↑ Iron Dome system passes final tests. (No longer available online.) In: jpost.com. The Jerusalem Post, July 19, 2010, archived from the original on April 12, 2011 ; accessed on April 12, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Newsletter of the Embassy of the State of Israel from July 1, 2014 and July 3, 2014
  24. ^ Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
  25. ↑ Israelnetz.de of March 21, 2018: Sderot honors 104-year-old Israeli
  26. ↑ Receipt on the federal capital's website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 20, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlin.de  
  27. ↑ Information on the website of the city of Antony (French); Retrieved November 20, 2012