Bat Yam

[ baht yahm ]

noun

1. a city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in W central Israel, S of Tel Aviv.

Example Sentences

“The video from the camera in Bat Yam suggests that the rocket seen in the Al Jazeera video was not close enough to Al-Ahli Hospital to be responsible for the explosion that occurred at the hospital,” said Andrea Richardson, a lawyer and war crimes investigator who is a consultant with the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. 

From Seattle Times

The Bat Yam camera, in addition to capturing the launch in Israel, also showed the large barrage of rockets fired from within Gaza.

From Seattle Times

“All we have is bits and pieces of information,” said Neumann, who lives in Bat Yam, a city just south of Tel Aviv.

From Seattle Times

Among the thousands of rockets fired towards Israel on Saturday, some evaded the Iron Dome missile defence system, causing damage as far north as central Tel Aviv, Bat Yam and Jerusalem.

From BBC

“No party has exclusivity over Judaism, just as no party has exclusivity over pluralism,” Tzvika Brot, the mayor of Bat Yam, a Likud stronghold, wrote on Twitter, adding that the city would continue to educate its children in the spirit of “pluralism and acceptance of the other.”

From New York Times