Thirty-three people were injured in Dimona as strikes on Saturday reduced vast tracts of the city in southern Israel to mangled debris, in an action that came in retaliation of an attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment site hours earlier.
Aside from being a key nuclear site, Dimona has earned the title “Little India”, with a 7,500-strong Indian-Jewish community making up for some 30 per cent of the town’s population. Fluent Marathi and a smattering on Hindi can be overheard, cricket has a fervent fan base and shops sell local Indian snacks like ‘sonpapdi,’ ‘gulab jamun,’ ‘papri chaat,’ ‘bhelpuri’.
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