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Police and medical personnel at the entrance to Hura on June 17, 2023. (Magen David Adom)
June 17, 2023, 7:26 pm
12-year-old girl dies in Negev; tire tracks found on her chest
Girl’s family claims she died of heat stroke after being left in car, but police open investigation after finding evidence she was run over
By ToI Staff
For Illustation: View of solar panels set up in the Negev desert, June 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 13, 2023, 8:32 pm
Israel earmarks NIS 75 million for five new tech innovation hubs in the periphery
Tech hubs will be established in the Negev and Galilee to boost local high-tech employment and entrepreneurship in areas of agriculture, food, energy and climate change solutions
By Sharon Wrobel
Maayan Domanovich. (Courtesy National Transplant Center)
May 11, 2023, 4:35 pm
Young woman indicted for reckless homicide over Negev car crash that killed baby
Yana Bloom is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol, causing death of Maayan Domanovich and injuring his parents and siblings
By ToI Staff
The scene of a fatal car crash on Route 40 at the Negev Junction, April 26, 2023. (MDA)
May 1, 2023, 5:43 pm
Woman remanded in custody over Negev car crash that killed baby
Yana Bloom is suspected of driving under the influence, causing death of Maayan Domanovich and injuring his parents and siblings
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Israel Police car, February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)
April 24, 2023, 4:53 pm
Man shot dead in southern Bedouin town
Victim hit at close range after dropping wife outside post office in Tel as-Sabi, marking 58th slaying in Arab community this year
By ToI Staff
The site for a new town temporarily called Tila in the Negev, southern Israel. (Yuval Dax, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
March 22, 2023, 1:57 pm
Planning committee greenlights new ultra-Orthodox town in Negev
Panel rejects original plan for mixed religious-secular town aimed largely at IDF personnel and their families, saying it would compete unfairly with Beersheba, other Negev towns
By Sue Surkes
Negev and the Galilee Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2023, 3:32 pm
New department in Negev and Galilee Ministry to bolster illegal West Bank outposts
Sunday cabinet decision fails to clarify what ‘young settlement’ office’s powers will be, and how it will overlap with various other settlement-related bodies
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
KKL workers plant trees in the sandy soil of Kibbutz Mefalsim, located in the north-west Negev desert near to the Gaza border, in August, 2022. The trees are planted to hide the kibbutz from the view of rocket launchers in the Gaza Strip close by. (KKL)
January 22, 2023, 11:21 pm
KKL-JNF to move ahead with flashpoint tree planting in Negev
Group’s chair defends practice as crucial for protecting against ‘incursions, environmental harm, illegal construction. trespassing’; critics say intention is to displace Bedouins
By ToI Staff
Jockeys compete in a weekly horse-racing competition at a field near the Bedouin village of Abu Tlal in southern Israel near Beersheva on November 25, 2022. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
December 20, 2022, 8:09 pm
Off a desert highway in the south, Bedouins convene for weekly horse racing
Participants deny gambling involved and say they’re determined to maintain tradition, despite efforts by police to shut it down over claim some gatherings held too close to road
By Ben Simon
Police officers at the scene of a car chase with kidnappers in the south on December 12, 2022. (Israel Police)
December 12, 2022, 9:34 pm
Police rescue kidnapping victim after car chase through south
East Jerusalem man, 22, located bound and beaten, after being held as part of apparent ransom plot, authorities say; 5 arrested
By ToI Staff
Artist's impression of potential redevelopment on the grounds of an IDF army base in Tel Aviv (courtesy Israel Land Authority)
December 6, 2022, 4:53 pm
Defense tech firm Rafael to vacate prime Tel Aviv real estate for new development
Initial agreement with Israel Land Authority will see Iron Dome maker leave central area to make way for 900 new apartments, offices, commercial complex, and public space
By Danielle Nagler
Illustrative: The Beersheba District Court in southern Israel, on December 1, 2019. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 5, 2022, 4:20 pm
Prosecutors to appeal teen’s 5-year sentence for sexual assault of girl in her bed
State says court was too swayed by attacker’s ostensible rehabilitation, will seek harsher punishment; victim’s father praises move, says such crimes must meet ‘full force of law’
By ToI Staff
A visualization of the 'Negev Park,' Israel's planned new entertainment center near Beersheba. (Courtesy / Tourism Ministry)
November 16, 2022, 9:25 am
Plans to build $15m amusement park, hotel complex in Negev move forward
Tourism Ministry issues tenders for ambitious building project near Beersheba that city officials say will deliver a tourist boost and jobs to the country’s south
By Danielle Nagler
Illustrative: The Beersheba District Court in southern Israel, on December 1, 2019. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 9, 2022, 2:13 pm
Teen gets 5 years for sexual assault of 10-year-old in her bed during burglary
Victim’s father angry at leniency of sentencing for attack that shocked nation last year, says family only agreed to plea deal to keep girl from having to testify in court
By ToI Staff
Soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces' new Faran Brigade, which will defend the Egyptian-Israeli border, take part in a training exercise in southern Israel in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 20, 2022, 10:44 am
IDF to watch over southern border communities in battle against crime – report
Military lookout units to turn their attention from Egyptian border to nearby Israeli towns, where residents say police are unable to provide security
By ToI Staff
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