Sderot (Hebrew שְׂדֵרוֹת‎ – translated into Russian as “avenue”, “boulevard”; Arabic سديروت‎) is a city in the northwestern Negev, in the southern part of Israel (15 kilometers southeast of Ashkelon). The name – literally “avenue”, “alley” – is given in honor of the Jewish National Fund, which made plantings (alleys along the roads) as part of the program for the development and settlement of the northern part of the Negev desert.

History
The year of foundation of Sderot is considered to be 1951, when Jews from Iran, Kurdistan, Morocco and, to a lesser extent, Tunisia, who found casual work mainly in agriculture, began to settle in tents here (near kibbutz Nir-Am). Later, a “ma’bara” (barracks) was built in the settlement and it was called Ma’beret-Gevim – Dorot; repatriates from North Africa joined it. In 1956, a local council was formed in Sderot.
With the beginning of aliyah from the USSR, and then from the CIS countries in the 1990s. repatriates from these countries began to settle in Sderot. At present, the population of the city is 19,400 inhabitants (2009), more than half of them, 7871 people (2006), are new repatriates from the countries of the former USSR who immigrated to Israel in the 90s. And the vast majority (about 2 thousand, 2006) are Mountain Jews (an ethno-religious group of Jews who traditionally lived in Dagestan (Derbent), Chechnya (Grozny) and Azerbaijan). Sderot is home to the Negev Regional College. P. Sapir.

There is a large industrial zone in Sderot – enterprises for the production, sorting and packaging of food products, metalworking, textile, cable and other factories. Some residents are employed in the nearby Lappidot oilfields.
Sderot is periodically bombarded with makeshift Qassam-type rockets from the Gaza Strip (From the Bet Hanoun area. From Sderot to the Palestinian city of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, in a straight line of four kilometers). The missile fall warning system warns the inhabitants of Sderot about a missile fall in about 15 seconds. The Israeli army periodically conducts preventive operations in the Gaza Strip, suppressing terrorist firing positions and destroying rocket workshops.
According to statistics, from mid-June 2007 to mid-February 2008, 771 rockets and 857 mines were fired from the Gaza Strip into Sderot, there are, on average, 3-4 shells per day.

Population
According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the population for 2016 is 23,090.