Tag: Beersheva

Beersheva goes cyber

Tel Aviv may be Israel’s startup city, but Beersheva is gearing up to be the world’s cyber capital.

Tending the wounds of war

Since the start of Operation Protective Edge, Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva has treated 1,116 casualties — 740 soldiers, 376 civilians.

sraeli residents take shelter against incoming rockets after a warning siren in Nitzan. Photo by Flash90.

Cloudy with a chance of missiles

For the past year or two, missiles have come raining down on southern Israel every few months. Somehow, as the pundits endlessly talked it out on different evening news programs, this became an acceptable situation, as unavoidable as bad weather.

SPNI’s Ronit Zeevi marking the RBST. Photo courtesy SPNI/Israel Trail Committee

Taking a hike around Beersheva

New ‘green belt’ hiking route circling Israel’s seventh-largest city is also a planning tool for environmentally responsible municipal expansion.