Editing Sderot (section)

==Culture==
An unusually high ratio of singers, instrumentalists, composers and poets have come from Sderot.<ref name="jpost.com" />
[[File:The Harp Player in Sderot.jpg|thumb|Harp sculpture, Sderot town square]]
Several popular bands have been formed by musicians who practiced in Sderot's [[bomb shelters]] as teenagers.<ref name="haaretz-ben-shimon" /><ref name="thejewishweek1" /><ref name="saada-ophir" /> As an immigrant town with high unemployment experiencing a dramatic musical success, as bands blend international sounds with the music of their [[Moroccan Jews in Israel|Moroccan immigrant parents]], it has been compared to Liverpool in the 1960s.<ref name="somethingjewish1" /><ref name="sderotmotive" /> Among the notable bands are [[Teapacks]]<ref name="teapacks" /> [[Knesiyat Hasekhel]] and [[Sfatayim]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.israel-music.com/sefatayim/ |title=Sefatayim |publisher=Israel-music.com |access-date=2010-04-04}}</ref> Well-known musicians from Sderot include [[Shlomo Bar]], [[Kobi Oz]], [[Haïm Ulliel]] and [[Smadar Levi]].
The winner of the Israeli version of "[[American Idol]]" 2011 was [[Hagit Yaso]], a local Sderot singer of [[Ethiopian Jews|Ethiopian]] origin.

Israeli poet [[Shimon Adaf]] was born in Sderot,<ref name="jpost.com"/> as well as the actor and entertainer [[Maor Cohen]]. Adaf dedicated a poem to the city in his 1997 book ''Icarus' Monologue''.

In 2007, Jewish-American documentary filmmaker [[Laura Bialis]] immigrated to Israel, and decided to settle in 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".<ref name="israel21c" /> Her film ''[[Sderot: Rock in the Red Zone]]'' focuses on young musicians living under the daily threat of Qassams.<ref name="forward1" /><ref name="wjd1" /><ref name="sdjw1" />

Politically, the town leans heavily to the right.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-in-jerusalem-zionist-union-in-tel-aviv/|title=Likud in Jerusalem, Zionist Union in Tel Aviv|work=The Times of Israel}}</ref>