Earlier on Thursday night, the channel’s well-connected political reporter Michael Shemesh said that just before the vote on the budget in the Knesset, tensions in the coalition continue to rise.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/government-israel/smotrich-denies-clash-with-netanyahu-struk-warns-clash-would-topple-government/2023/05/19/

Hanna Ifergan, a resident of Jerusalem’s Makor Baruch neighborhood, served as the principal of the Banot Hadassah school in Beit Shemesh.

Source: https://ionigeria.com/rabbinical-court-judge-school-principal-and-a-pregnant-teacher-identified-as-israeli-victims-of-hamas-attack-on-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rabbinical-court-judge-school-principal-and-a-pregnant-teacher-iden

Meanwhile, in Beit Shemesh, life isn’t without its challenges for the Benichou family.

Source: https://www.jta.org/2023/12/22/israel/after-israel-plunged-into-war-these-jews-moved-there-anyway

The construction site where apparently two teens allegedly sexually abused a two-year-old girl in Beit Shemesh, on June 2, 2023.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/beit-shemesh-teen-indicted-for-rape-of-toddler-sexual-assault-of-9-year-old-boy/

The group of demonstrators arrived in Kfar Uriah near Beit Shemesh when they heard the far-right minister was spending the weekend there.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/clashes-between-protesters-police-residents-of-town-where-ben-gvir-spending-shabbat/