Israel
Negev
Southern District

Sderot

Sderot is a western city and former development town in the of . In 2023, it had a population of 35,477. Sderot is located less than a mile from , and is notable for having been a major target of Qassam rocket attacks from the .
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  • Type: Town with 27,600 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Sederot” and “Shederot”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sderot and Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot.

Railway station
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The railway station is a railway station located near the southern entrance to , . It is situated on the Ashkelon–Beersheba railway.

College
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The , known formally as the Max and Ruth Schwartz Yeshivat Hesder of Sderot, was founded in 1995 by Rabbi Dovid E. Fendel. The yeshiva is located in the town of Sderot, one kilometer from the and the Palestinian Arab town of .

Movie theater
Sderot Cinematheque is a film archive in Sderot, . The Sderot Cinematheque was established in December 1999. It was founded by Haim Bresheeth in cooperation with Sapir Academic College and Sderot mayor Eli Moyal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nir Am and Gevim.

Village
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is a kibbutz in southern . Located next to the city of Sderot and around two kilometres from the , the kibbutz covers 20,000 dunams. It falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 659.

Village
is a kibbutz in southern . Located in the northwestern desert near Sderot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 680.

Village
is a village in southern . Located near Sderot, it falls under the jurisdiction of Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 912.

Sderot

Latitude
31.5265° or 31° 31′ 35″ north
Longitude
34.597° or 34° 35′ 49″ east
Population
27,600
Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IL SDT
Open location code
8G3PGHGW+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278474577
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
293619
Wiki­data ID
Q123196
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Sderot” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “اسديروت”
  • Arabic: “سديروت”
  • Arabic: “سيديروت”
  • Armenian: “Սդերոթ”
  • Asturian: “Sderot”
  • Basque: “Sderot”
  • Belarusian: “Сдэрот”
  • Breton: “Sderot”
  • Bulgarian: “Седерот”
  • Catalan: “Sderot”
  • Catalan: “Sederot”
  • Cebuano: “Sederot”
  • Chinese: “塞代罗特”
  • Chinese: “斯代罗特”
  • Chinese: “斯德洛特”
  • Chinese: “斯德罗特”
  • Czech: “Sderot”
  • Czech: “Sederot”
  • Danish: “Sderot”
  • Dutch: “Sderot”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سديروت”
  • Esperanto: “Sderot”
  • Esperanto: “Sderoto”
  • Estonian: “Sderot”
  • Estonian: “Sederot”
  • Finnish: “Sderot”
  • French: “Sderot”
  • French: “Sdérot”
  • Georgian: “სდეროთი”
  • German: “Sderot”
  • German: “Sederot”
  • Greek: “Σντερότ”
  • Hebrew: “שדרות”
  • Hungarian: “Szderót”
  • Indonesian: “Sderot”
  • Italian: “Sderot”
  • Japanese: “スデロット”
  • Korean: “스데로트”
  • Ladino: “Sderot”
  • Macedonian: “Сдерот”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sderot”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sderot”
  • Norwegian: “Sderot”
  • Persian: “سدروت”
  • Persian: “سدیروت”
  • Persian: “شهرک سدروت”
  • Polish: “Sderot”
  • Polish: “Sederot”
  • Portuguese: “Sderot”
  • Romanian: “Sderot”
  • Romanian: “Şderot”
  • Romanian: “Șderot”
  • Russian: “Sderot”
  • Russian: “Сдерот”
  • Russian: “Седерот”
  • Scots: “Sderot”
  • Serbian: “Сдерот”
  • Spanish: “Sderot”
  • Spanish: “Sederot”
  • Spanish: “שדרות”
  • Swahili: “Sderot”
  • Swedish: “Sderot”
  • Swedish: “Sederot”
  • Tagalog: “Sderot”
  • Tagalog: “Sederot”
  • Tagalog: “Sederoth”
  • Turkish: “Sderot”
  • Ukrainian: “Сдерот”
  • Urdu: “سدیروت”
  • Vietnamese: “Sderot”
  • Welsh: “Sderot”
  • Yiddish: “שדרות”

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