In 1956, Sderot was recognized as a local council.

In 2008, the average wage for a salaried worker in Sderot was NIS 5, 261.

The winner of Israeli version of " American Idol " 2011 was Hagit Yaso, a Sderot local singer from Ethiopian origin.

Israeli poet Shimon Adaf was born in Sderot, as well as the actor and entertainer Maor Cohen.

“ when we think of what happened in Toulouse today, when we remember what happened in Norway a year ago, when we know what is happening in Syria, when we see what is happening in Gaza and Sderot and in different parts of the world – we remember young people and children who lose their lives .” After she was misquoted in the press as having not mentioned Sderot, Israeli ministers harshly criticised her equating the murder of three children and a rabbi in the shooting attack with the situation in Gaza.

The stated goal of the operation, code-named " Days of Penitence " ( ימי תשובה ) by the Israeli Defence Force, was to prevent Palestinians from launching rockets and mortar shells into Israeli settlements in Gaza and the town of Sderot in Israel.

The raid was launched in response to the rocket attacks on the town of Sderot which left two children dead.

The Israeli military claimed that Nabhan was responsible for the launching of the rocket that killed two young children in Sderot on Sukkot eve, triggering the army offensive in northern Gaza.

An early warning system to alert the residents of Sderot, which was installed by the IDF, worked flawlessly, according to security officer.

According to Israeli authorities it was in response for its use as a base from which Palestinian militant groups have fired Qassam rockets into the northern Negev towns like Sderot, as well as the former Gush Katif settlements.

In Los Angeles an Israel Leadership Club was organized and has been active in support activities for Israel, most recently in 2008, it sponsored with the local Jewish Federation and Israeli consulate a concert in support for the embattled population suffering rocket attacks of Sderot, Israel where the three frontrunners for the U. S. president, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain greeted the attendees by video and expressed their support for the residents of Sderot.

On 14 January, Israeli news sources Haaretz and Ynetnews reported that a mortar shell containing white phosphorus was fired from Gaza and exploded without damage or injury in an open space in the Eshkol area. The official foreign press spokesman for the Israeli Police, Micky Rosenfeld, stated that the shell had landed in a field near Sderot.

Hollandia International, founded in 1981, a company that manufacturers and exports high-end mattresses, moved its sole manufacturing center to Sderot 11 years ago.

The operation, focused on the town of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia and Jabalia refugee camp, which were used as launching sites of Qassam rockets on the Israeli town of Sderot and Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, and in particular in response to the death of two children in Sderot.

In May 2011, the British Ambassador to Israel visited Sderot and met with Mayor David Buskila, who described the suffering of children in both Sderot and Gaza: " Believe me that I feel bad for my children, for the children that live here in Sderot, but I also feel pain for the children that live in the other side of the border in Gaza ...

Sderot is the first location in Israel to offer WiMAX services, with a WiMAX service for educational institutions initiated on January 8, 2009 by the 012 Smile ISP and the communications ministry.

Its production facilities for breakfast cereals are also located in Sderot.

In 2012, the government approved nearly $ 59 million worth of economic benefits for Sderot to strengthen the economy, boost employment and subsidize psycho-social programs for the city's residents.

Another example, is the Jewish Agency's role in supporting Sderot and the surrounding area, which has been hit hard with Kassam missiles from Gaza.

Sderot absorbed another large wave of immigrants during the Aliyah from the Soviet Union in the 1990s, doubling its population.

I saw the rockets coming down on Sderot, and visited many families who lost their loved ones.

Lines under construction in the 2000s include the high-speed railway to Jerusalem, an extension of the coastal railway directly from Tel Aviv to Ashdod through the northern Shephelah, and a line from Ashkelon to Beersheba via Sderot, Netivot and Ofakim, as well as a complete reconstruction of the line from Lod to Beersheba.

Since Israel's 2005 Gaza Disengagement, over 2, 000 Qassam rockets have been launched from Khan Yunis into Israel, mostly to the Southern Israeli city of Sderot.

Sderot Ga ' aton, the city's main boulevard, runs east-west from the Coastal Highway junction to the sea, and is divided down the middle by the Ga ' aton River.

Three successful nightclubs have opened in Netivot which also draw clientele from out of town, attracting young people from Ashkelon, Beersheba, Omer, Lehavim, Ofakim and Sderot.

* September 7: A 60 year old jogger is wounded by shrapnel from a Qassam rocket fired at Sderot.

Sderot is located less than a mile from Gaza ( the closest point is 840 meters ).

A number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip were resettled in Sderot beginning in 1997 after cooperating with the Shin Bet.

An unusually high ratio of singers, instrumentalists, composers and poets have come from Sderot.

Well-known musicians from Sderot include Shlomo Bar, Kobi Oz, Haïm Ulliel and Smadar Levi.

In 2007, documentary filmmaker Laura Bialis immigrated from California to Sderot " to find out what it means to live in a never-ending war, and to document the lives and music of musicians under fire.

Sderot lies one kilometer from the Gaza Strip and town of Beit Hanoun.

Her spokesman stated that her remark had been “ grossly distorted ” and that she had also referenced Israeli victims in Sderot, but this had been incorrectly omitted from the original transcript.

Following the withdrawal, the Israeli town of Sderot and other Israeli communities near the Gaza strip became subject to constant shelling and mortar bomb attacks from Gaza with only minimal Israeli response.

The Israeli government claims the troops entered in response to continued shelling of the Israeli town of Sderot from the Jabalia area, including Qassam rockets launched on September 28.

It is located by the Hanoun stream, just away from the Israeli town of Sderot.

Knesiyat Hasekhel ( Church of Reason ) is an Israeli rock band from Sderot.

Examples include Tamuz in Beit Shemesh ( near Jerusalem ), Horesh in Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem, Beit Yisrael in Gilo, Jerusalem Migvan in Sderot.

Shaded by the thick greenery of towering eucalyptus trees and lined with numerous shops, boutiques, open-air cafes, restaurants and ice cream parlors, Sderot Ga ' aton is Nahariya's main tourist attraction and its central business and entertainment district.

Nahariya's public transportation hub is located at the eastern end of Sderot Ga ' aton, near the intersection with Highway 4, and contains the city's train station and central bus station.

Sderot Ga ' aton runs westward where the mouth of the Ga ' aton River spills into the Mediterranean Sea.

* June 28: Four-year-old Afik Zahavi, and Mordehai Yosefof, 49, were killed in Sderot by a Palestinian Qassam rocket that hit a kindergarten, the first fatal Qassam attack.

* August 2: A Qassam rocket hits Sderot and damages a house, causing blast injuries to three people.

* September 23: A Qassam rocket attack on Sderot resulted in eight Israelis being treated at Barzalai Hospital in Ashkelon.

* September 29: Three Qassam rockets hit Sderot, killing two-year-old Dorit Aniso and four-year-old Yuval Abebeh, and injuring 10 – 20 people.

Two Qassam rockets are fired at the Israeli town of Sderot, injuring one Israeli.

Both programs allow students to spend time at Kedumin, Itamar, Alon Moreh, Sderot, East Jerusalem, and Hebron.

Sderot (, ) is a western Negev city in the Southern District of Israel.

From mid-June 2007 to mid-February 2008, 771 rockets and 857 mortar bombs were fired at Sderot and the western Negev, an average of three or four each a day.

Since Operation Cast Lead in 2009, which brought about an improvement in security, the Sderot real-estate market has picked up.

Sderot received a symbolic name, after the numerous avenues and standalone rows of trees planted in the Negev, especially between Beersheba and Gaza, to combat desertification and beautify the arid landscape.