This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Dimona (Hebrew: דִּימוֹנָה, Arabic: ديمونا) is an Israeli city in the Negev desert, 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the south-east of Beersheba and 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of the Dead Sea above the Arava valley in the Southern District of Israel.

[1] The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, colloquially known as the Dimona Reactor, is located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) southeast of the city.

"[3] Dimona was one of the development towns created in the 1950s under the leadership of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

In spite of a gradual decrease during the 1980s, the city's population began to grow once again in the 1990s when it took in immigrants from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.

Due to projected rapid population growth in the Negev, the city is expected to triple in size by 2025.

[5] It is also home to Israel's Black Hebrew community, formerly governed by its founder and spiritual leader, Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, now deceased.

[6] The Black Hebrews number about 3,000 in Dimona, with additional families in Arad, Mitzpe Ramon and the Tiberias area.

Due to the introduction of new technologies, many workers have been made redundant in the recent years, creating a total unemployment rate of about 10%.

In the early 1950s, an extension to Dimona and south was constructed from the Railway to Beersheba, designed for freight traffic.