Disengagement

Why Israel must reverse the 2005 Gaza withdrawal, resettle Gush Katif - opinion

Twenty-one years after the Gush Katif withdrawal, Israel must replace retreat with rebuilding and ensure Gaza can never again become a terror base.

GUSH KATIF’S pioneers made the desert bloom: Entrance to Neveh Dekalim, seen July 2005.
The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon is seen in an archive image taken during the 1980s

Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform


Court says it won’t block rebuilding of West Bank’s Homesh on state land

“We order the deletion of the petition after it has been exhausted in its current form,” the court said.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Letters to the Editor July 31, 2023: Resolved by the voters

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Letters to the Editor July 17, 2023: Pure evil

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Whose fault was the disengagement?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: As it turns 18, the trauma’s deployment by the judiciary’s enemies is denialist, selective, and dishonest.

 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

Raanan Gissin, best known as Sharon's spokesman, passes away at 74

A frequent presence on international television channels, the gravel-voiced Gissin with the bushy black eyebrows cast a formidable figure.

 Raanan Gissin, US Embassy in Israel, July 4th 2015.

Gallant seeks to authorize Homesh yeshiva after Disengagement Law repeal

The move comes amid a court case filed by the left-wing group Yesh Din in 2019 to force the state to evacuate the illegal modular yeshiva.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Hundreds to celebrate Independence Day in Homesh after disengagement repeal

The event will be held under the title "Celebrating Jewish Independence on Homesh," marking the first such celebration since the repeal of the Disengagement Law a month ago.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Are the Jewish people too close to God?

Being assured of the divine will and discovering those assurances to be incorrect can destabilize faith. Sadly, many lost their faith in God.

 Jews and God: We attempt to better understand Him, while realizing we are chasing an elusive unknown (Illustrative).

14 Days: Gallant’s gamble

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

 Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Israel didn't violate US agreement, official says, downplays crisis

After the disengagement repeal, the US accused Israel of violating a 2004 agreement, which the official said the US also did not hold to.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden, at the time serving as vice president, has dinner with then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, during his visit to Israel in 2010.