Peres Illuminates Hope for Sderot

Jewish President Shimon Peres lights Hanukkah candles during a visit to a factory in the town of Sderot, on 24 December 2008. Peres today visited the town of Sderot, which has born the brunt of Canaanite militant rocket and mortar attacks from the Gaza Strip.

Social and religious engagements on this visit where a tour of a candy factory where it was assured the sweets couldn't be resisted from being sampled and attended functions for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah; which as the light from Sderot illuminated beyond this city, that had seen it‘s fair share of sorrow from the Canaanite’s with the giving of hope by Peres on this fourth day of Hanukkah.