Bulgarian soccer fans attacked Israeli players during an exhibition match in the country’s capital. Players from the Ashdod team escaped using some empty stands after Bulgarian fans ran out onto the field throwing bottles and physically attacking players during the match on Sunday, according to reports. The attack came after members of the Ashdod team…
An Ashdod synagogue was hit by a rocket Friday afternoon, injuring three people lightly. Earlier in the day heavy rocket and mortar fire on southern Israel moderately wounded another Israeli in Beersheva, Haaretz reported. Two men in their 20s and a woman in her 40s were injured by shrapnel from the Ashdod rocket. All three…
Several bomb shelters in Ashdod were ordered to remove signs indicating they are for men only. In response to a complaint lodged by Knesset member Stav Shaffir, the Rabbinical Courts Administration ordered the removal of the signs, the Times of Israel reported. “The thought that women who sought a secure refuge from rocket fire and…
Hundreds of Israelis took to the streets on Friday to take part in the first ever official gay pride march in Ashdod in southern Israel. More than 600 people marched together in the port city, which has a large religious population. 2000 people had been expected to march in the pride parade in Israel’s fifth-largest…
The gap between the center and the “periphery” — a term that is increasingly used to refer to pretty much everywhere in Israel except Tel Aviv and its surroundings — is growing, at least economically. But happily, the cultural divide may be starting to narrow. Two weeks ago, Tel Aviv didn’t sleep — it held…
Crossposted from Haaretz New cottage neighborhoods in west Rishon Letzion symbolize the suburbanization of Israel. The process can be found in stretches between Hadera and Ashdod, where middle-class residents chase their dream of a high quality of life near cities. The most visible traits of this phenomenon are conformism and uniformity: the same furnishings, the…
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