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By Avi Abelow
In 2005, many Israelis wore orange to protest the immoral, disastrous Israeli disengagement from Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli finance minister also called to encourage voluntary migration from Gaza, saying the Strip's population could be reduced by more than half within two years.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In August 2005, Israel unilaterally disengaged from the Strip, removing thousands of Jews from their homes.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A majority of Jewish Israelis support the re-establishment of Israeli civilian communities in the Gaza Strip, according to the “Peace Index” survey released by Tel Aviv University in January of this year.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Only when Jewish children are playing in the Strip will the Nukhba terrorists realize that they have lost," said MK Zvi Sukkot.
Many years ago, I lived in Gush Katif, for the sake of the entire country recognize that the "withdrawal" experiment failed.
While the whole world is talking about “the day after”, now’s the time to think of today, even as the battles in Gaza are still raging, a surprise initiative. Time to return the dignity of Settlements and “teshuva” for the shame of the Disengagement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Two-thirds of Israeli Jews favor IDF security control in Gaza post-war.
In Efrat, students recreated the Gush Katif human chain protest.
By JNi.Media
A month and a half ago, many residents of Yad Binyamin marked the 13th anniversary of their expulsion from Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
Tammuz is about choices, and we have precedents of mistaken ones. Do we learn from them- or repeat them? Eve Harow speaks with Tami Zilbershein who was expelled from her home in Gush Katif in 2005 about the challenges and opportunities that have accompanied the last 13 years today on Rejuvenation.
By Alex Traiman
The best case scenario is that the demolitions in Netiv Avot will have little to no effect on Israel moving forward. In the worst case scenario, the evacuations will drive peace further away.
By JNi.Media
102 housing units will be built in the new settlement, to be named Amichai, which is being built in the Shvut Rachel area of the Benjamin region.
View the mansions that Bedouins have built on the land that Israel have given them for free in the Negev.
The residents want their replacement homes to be built before being evacuated, not sometime afterwards.
Ari and Jeremy speak with the people of Amona to understand the depth and dimension of the travesty that is unfolding in the Jewish State. Why is the beautiful Jewish city of Amona slated to be demolished at any moment?
By JNi.Media
A local official believes most of the missing money is being kept in the Agriculture Ministry's coffers.
By JNi.Media
A third of the evacuees still live in temporary housing, 14% are unemployed and a third still see themselves as Gush Katif residents.
Where are they working now? Josh Hasten speaks with Judy Lowy, Executive Director of JobKatif, who's organization helped to provide employment opportunities and training for those whose lives were shattered in 2005. Today on Israel Uncensored on The Land Of Israel.com Network
The Gush Katif and Northern Samaria Commemoration Center held a conference on Monday commemorating the eleventh anniversary of Israel’s “Disengagement.”
By JNi.Media
The AG is obviously feeling that he can't go to battle against a clear Supreme Court ruling to demolish Amona.
It's been 11 years since the expulsion from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron. Where are the 2000 families now? This week on Rejuvenation with Eve Harow on The Land of Israel Network.
A community in Samaria told the Supreme Court it is working through the offices of Peres and Abbes to find a solution to prevent the planned desecration.
If we're already being creative, here's another thought...
By Moshe Herman
Yishai plays recordings from the month-and-a-half he and his wife, Malka, spent broadcasting from Gush Katif during the 2005 disengagement. The Fleishers provided their priceless, on-the-scene perspective of one of the most dramatic moments in Israeli history, as they observed the communities’ valiant refusal to leave their homes — even as their towns were cut off from food and supplies — while being intimidated by the Israeli government.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“I still wait to return,” Hodaya Giat said, “I still have hope that someday we can return to the beaches, to our homes.”
This interactive trip, marking the tenth anniversary of the expulsion from Gush Katif, will take ten busloads of visitors to several of the new Gush Katif communities, to show solidarity with them.
By Shalom Bear
The Gazans said they missed Gush Katif and working with the Jewish Settlers, at a conference of Gazan and Israeli farmers and importers held in Israel.
Former PM Ariel Sharon succinctly said, "the fate of Netzarim (Gush Katif) is the fate of Tel-Aviv."
Kerry still thinks Muslim terror in Israel is different from elsewhere.
As we're thinking ahead and making our New Year resolutions, here are 5 easy ways to help the Zionist pioneering citizens formerly of Gush Katif rebuild their lives destroyed in the 2005 Disengagement Plan.
Benign neglect could be setting up Jews in eastern Jerusalem for “Gush Katif No. 2”
During the years of attacks on Gush Katif communities no residents either wished to leave or left.
The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip nine years ago did not enhance Israel’s security.
9 years ago this week, the Israeli government forced 8,000 Jews from their homes and lives in Gaza.
Israel more or less won the battle against Hamas, but has a poor of history of fighting the enemy known as “peace talks.”
By JoeSettler
A reader claimed the Disengagement from Gaza was good, because it reduced the number of murdered Israelis. Examining the numbers tells a different story...
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler points out that most Gazans want to leave, and most Jews want to go back home to Gush Katif. How about a solution that actually resolves the conflict?
It has been 9 years since Israel’s Disengagement. JobKatif continues to bring relief to the unemployed and underemployed families From Gush Katif through vocational training, employment placement, counseling and coaching.
As former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert heads off to jail for corruption, one tries to consider which event will best define Olmert's legacy. His role in destroying Gush Katif? His abject failure in the Lebanon war? The Holyland Towers? Simply being the first Israeli Prime Minister sent to jail? I think Olmert will best be […]
By Batya Medad
Before Begin's policy of withdrawing from Land liberated in the 6 Day War, today's scenario was unthinkable.
It was no coincidence when Netanyahu said that the Negev will be a cyber capital and that no rockets will be fired at it.
Retired Supreme Court Edmund Levy, who headed a three-man committee that debunked allegations that Israel is an “occupier,” died Tuesday night at the age of 72. He served on the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2011, capping a legal career that began with studies at Tel Aviv University several years after his family immigrated to […]
The Gush Katif Committee has worked for several months with Housing minister Uri Ariel, and the Tnufa administration headed by Yisrael Melachi, to develop a working plan for the victims of the mass expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif in 2005. The committee’s targets are to develop new communities, which besides fulfilling the obligation to […]
From what I know of Netanyahu, it is clear to me that he is not happy about giving up parts of our land.
Orange is a dangerous color to Bolsheviks
By Shalom Bear
An Iron Dome and additional steps are being deployed so that Gazan rockets don't hit anyone at Ariel Sharon's funeral.
By JTA
President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to Israel’s security in his condolence message on the death of Ariel Sharon. “On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the family of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to the people of Israel on the loss of a leader who dedicated […]
Ariel Sharon saved the life of Yaakov "Katzelah" Katz in the Yom Kippur War but destroyed the lives of thousands of Jews in Gush Katif
Deri is actively trying to rehabilitate his image among the Settlers and National-Religious crowd.
Approximately 3,000 protesters, including Jewish Home party Knesset Members, protested at the Ofer prison near Jerusalem Monday night, where 26 terrorists will be freed during the night. Their “human chain” has no chance of stopping the release of terrorists, but the demonstrators hope their presence may add enough angry sentiment among Israelis to stop the […]
The Palestinian Authority has a new and invincible weapon to sidestep the “peace process” and force Jews out of Judea and Samaria. It has announced it will plant 750,000 olive trees, enough to cover all of “Area C.”
Niso Shacham ordered his police officers to violently beat civilians, ahead of the Gush Katif expulsion.
Tens of thousands of Arabs worked in Gush Katif and Israel before the Intifada in the late ‘80s. Today, literally today, a Gaza man said he is so poor he is ready to sell his daughter. Can the West connect the dots?
The IDF released a video Wednesday showing how it blew up a terror tunnel reaching Israel. The problem is there are hundreds of others waiting to be found and blown up before terrorists blow up Israelis.
That there is even a debate in the religious sector about obeying eviction orders reflects a warping of core values.
The Hamas regime in Gaza now is welcoming the announcement by Israel to build new homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, convinced that Arabs will take them over the property as they did in Gaza after the expulsion of Jews from the region in 2005. Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said the Jewish […]
In reality, Lipman and his ilk have learned nothing from the destruction of Gush Katif.
Kerry visits next week to reincarnate the peace process. How will he finesse a new PA terror attack on an IDF checkpoint, where soldiers killed the terrorist? Move the checkpoint to the Mediterranean?
When I visited the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem a couple of years ago, it was a brutal reminder of what happens when politicians make decisions that don’t involve their brains.
Israel’s forced Evacuation/Compensation law for Jews was considered to be legitimate, but when I propose that the same principle be applied for Arabs, it is derided as unrealistic.
If you are thinking of voting for Kadima and Shaul Mofaz, if you are thinking of voting for Likud and Bibi Netanyahu - take a look at this news report.
Many forget that Netanyahu's score on his actions during the Disengagement was a floor hugging 14%.
Naftali Bennett goes on the offensive, questioning whether Netanyahu is planing another Expulsion/Disengagement based on his statements.
For some, a sewer pipe must serve as their bomb shelter.
The family: Uri & Hadassa DeYoung and 5 children: Avigayil (16), Noa (14), Beruria (10), Tsuriel (8) and Devora (2). Background: My husband and I are both from New Jersey. We met and married in Israel. My husband always lived along the New Jersey shore and when he discovered that he didn't have to give up the beach in order to live in an ideologically motivated community he was very excited.
In the past seven years since the Disengagement from Gaza, we have been witness to the conversion of Gush Katif into an armed camp, an arsenal from which some 9,400 rockets and missiles have been fired at the Israeli civilians and communities on the other side of the fence.
The family: My name is Avin Gangte. I am a member of the Benei Menashe community hailing from the north-eastern states of Manipur and Mizoram in India. I am married to Hagit who is also from the same community and we have five children.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Attempt to extort employers, former residents of Gush Katif, foiled.
The family: My name is Liora and I made aliya from Toronto when I was 16. That was 29 years ago and I came without my family. I lived in Neve Dekalim for 18 years. I met my husband Elimelech during my first year of college. He was studying in Yeshivat Hesder Yamit which was located in Neve Dekalim. When we go t married we decided to stay in Gush Katif until we completed our studies.
One after the other, people associated with the Gush Katif expulsion are going down. What's the connection?
Those who read my book, Where There Are No Men, already know that no real struggle can be conducted by the Yesha Council. We understood that the hard way when we established the Zo Artzeinu movement, and we have since explained how we reached this conclusion in detail.
The family: I was seven years old when I came to Israel from Czechoslovakia. My father had gone to New York in 1939 on a business trip and while he was returning on the Queen Mary ship World War II broke out. The ship changed its course and set sail for England, where my father stayed for the next year.
I voted for Ariel Sharon, to my eternal shame, because I believed his promises, his calls for security and negotiating from a position of strength. I believed and I voted for him, as the leader of Menachem Begin’s party. And so, Gush Katif was evacuated with my vote. I protested. It was the Likud/Kadima hammer that rammed through those settlements - and it was my vote that helped give them that hammer. I will live with that...always.
The family: I was born in Israel and I’ve never left. My husband Moshe was born in Detroit, MI. His family made aliyah when he was 12 years old.
The family: My name is Ora Ohana. My husband Gadi and I have eight children: Odaiya (30) who is married with four children, lives at the Ein Tzurim caravilla site; Eliyasaf (29) who is married with three children, lives in K'far Tapuah; Elyakim (27) is married with one daughter and lives in Pisagot; Hadass (26) is married with two children and lives at the Ein Tzurim caravilla site; Amitzur (21) has finished the army and learns at the Yeshiva Gevoha in Dimona; Benaya (19) will be enlisting in the army; Tamar (16), is a student at Ulpanat Neve Dekalim and No'am (12) is a student at Talmud Torah Atzmona, Shomriya.
Israel’s scorching-hot desert will soon be home to massive solar energy farms, bringing Israel closer to its goal of reliance on renewable energy. The Public Utility Authority on Monday issued nine licenses to establish Israel’s first large-scale solar energy farms.
Although J Street describes itself as a pro-Israel organization that supports peace between Israel and its neighbors, many Israelis and US Jews, including many public figures, have said that J Street is anti-Israel, particularly in relation to the security challenges facing the Jewish state. Several US Jewish leaders have objected to J Street's position on Israel, and have publicly disassociated themselves from the organization.
The main reason why we came to Eretz Yisrael was because we are Jews, and as such have no place to live in the world other than Eretz Yisrael. My family knew that living in Israel would not be easy and of course our lives would change in every way from the moment we arrived. Therefore, when we were expelled from Gush Katif we knew that everything comes from G-d, and that there is no reason to be angry at the State or at the soldiers that came to expel us.
Police dismantle Yissa Bracha, near Mitzpe Yericho, early Thursday morning.
“Tens of thousands visit here – ordinary Jews, educators and their students, Knesset members and government ministers, soldiers and their officers, members of European parliaments, and U.S. congressmen. And after their visits, something happens in the minds of all of them. Even left-wing Knesset members, with tears in their eyes, have written in the visitors’ book, ‘Never again!’ ”
The family: Parents Avinadav and Hanna Kalef; son, Ortal; daughter, Kinneret and son, Ronen. All of three Kalef children married while the family lived in Gush Katif and are themselves today, parents.
