Ramat Beit Shemesh

Illustrative: Construction of new residential buildings on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, May 21, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

May 25, 2023, 5:38 am

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

The Times of Israel’s regular feature on what is happening in Israel’s property market right now

By Danielle Nagler

Orthodox schoolgirls looking at posters in Beit Shemesh in June 2014. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

May 16, 2023, 8:08 pm

Beit Shemesh ad telling girls to play out of men’s view draws pedophilia accusations

Unsigned PSA aimed at ultra-Orthodox community runs in circular that once reportedly refused to publish safety advice because charities buying ad space ‘cooperated with Zionists’

By ToI Staff

The scene of an ATV accident in Ramat Beit Shemesh, April 10, 2023. (United Hatzalah)

April 11, 2023, 3:21 pm

Man killed in ATV crash; sister in critical condition

Vehicle overturns and crashes into a fence near driver’s home in central city of Beit Shemesh

By ToI Staff

An aerial view of the northern city of Nahariya, March 2018. (Vicu9 via iStock by Getty Images)

November 18, 2022, 6:28 am

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

The Times of Israel’s behind-the-scenes feature on what’s going on in Israel’s housing market right now

By Danielle Nagler

A view of Jerusalem. (Liran Sokolovski Finzi via iStock by Getty Images)

September 16, 2022, 12:09 am

Housing snapshot: Apartment sales and rentals across Israel

Our regular behind-the-scenes feature on what is going on in Israel’s housing market right now

By Danielle Nagler

Police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox men during a raid in a neighborhood of Beit Shemesh on April 28, 2020 (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

April 28, 2020, 4:34 pm

Hasidim clash with police in quarantined Beit Shemesh neighborhood

Tensions rise as police and IDF close off ultra-Orthodox enclave at the center of a coronavirus outbreak

By Sam Sokol

Residents walk in the Hasidic enclave of Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet under lockdown, April 27, 2020. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

April 28, 2020, 5:40 am

The shuttered neighborhood next door: Touring one of Israel’s virus hotspots

As life returns to something like normal for many Beit Shemesh residents like me, some of the town’s Hasidic residents find themselves under a government lockdown

By Sam Sokol

Byzantine-era church near Ramat Beit Shemesh which was dedicated to a 'glorious martyr,' October 23, 2019. (Cathy Rossi Borschel)

October 31, 2019, 12:56 pm

Tales from a crypt: Shedding light on a mysterious – female? – ‘glorious martyr’

A 1,500-year-old Christian site in the heart of ultra-Orthodox Ramat Beit Shemesh takes The Times of Israel down a rabbit hole to meet St. Thecla, a feisty 2nd-century preacher

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Eagle, symbol of the Byzantine Empire, discovered at a Byzantine-era church complex in Ramat Beit Shemesh, October 2019. (Asaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

October 23, 2019, 11:41 am

Opulent 1,500-year-old church to mystery ‘glorious martyr’ found at Beit Shemesh

Site yields rare intact crypt of anonymous martyr immortalized by Greek inscription; Jerusalem museum exhibit of findings showcases massive collection of delicate glass artifacts

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative: Children watch a fire raging in Jerusalem, July 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

August 25, 2019, 10:48 pm

Preteens suspected of setting 70 fires around Beit Shemesh

Group of 12-year-olds, allegedly motivated by boredom and competition, caused damage to nature areas and forced evacuations of buildings

By ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox people walk past a “modesty sign“ in Beit Shemesh. (Sam Sokol)

August 8, 2018, 2:08 pm

Dropouts from ultra-Orthodox life battle extremists in a divided Israeli city

In Beit Shemesh, tensions are spiking between those seeking to enforce strict modesty ideals and those who reject them

By Sam Sokol

A screen capture from a video of a young woman being chased in Beit Shemesh by a group of ultra-Orthodox men over her "immodest" clothes. (Screen capture: YouTube)

July 17, 2018, 9:39 pm

Girls chased by ultra-Orthodox mob in Beit Shemesh over ‘immodest’ clothes

Video shows young woman in shorts and a t-shirt fleeing from dozens of screaming men as they run after her

By ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox protest against compulsory drafting into the army, in Beit Shemesh on March 1, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

January 16, 2018, 2:09 pm

Ultra-Orthodox man arrested for stoning soldier’s car, causing him to crash

Arrest comes a week after serviceman was injured driving into a lamppost when Beit Shemesh residents pelted him with rocks, garbage

By Judah Ari Gross and Stuart Winer

January 11, 2018, 2:08 pm

Avraham Edelstein

The ripples of a stone in Beit Shemesh

A Haredi response to extremism: Judaism is soft and gentle and kind, let’s join hands and begin to talk

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Israelis take part in a violent protest in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on June 27, 2009. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

January 8, 2018, 2:54 pm

Ultra-Orthodox allegedly stone soldier’s car, causing him to crash

Serviceman sustains light injuries, but vehicle badly damaged as he drives into a lamppost after Beit Shemesh residents pelt him with rocks, garbage

By Judah Ari Gross