Gush Katif
Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement
The move follows government approval on Wednesday for the construction of 764 housing units across three settlements in the West Bank.
This week in Jewish history: The 2005 Gaza Disengagement
The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement
The Gaza Disengagement: Sharon's strategic mistake and its cost – opinion
Grapevine: Haman, son of Haman
What Ahmadinejad and the ancient Haman have in common is the desire to exterminate the entire nation of Israel.
Secular lessons from a 7-year-old religious folly
Minorities can’t stop any change the majority decides is worth setting aside its differences for.
Civil disobedience
The minority would have the right to oppose the decision, and even more so if the leader was corrupt.
April 5: Some ‘initiative’
Israel can never agree to these terms. So much for illusions of the Saudi initiative.
‘I live in Gush Katif so you can live in TA’
The irony of an increasingly isolated Israel becomes more and more bitter.
Creating tension to expel Jews
The confrontations between right-wing young people and the IDF are disturbing indeed, but those who condemn ‘the settlers’ are willingly ignoring half the story.
The white soldier
Performance artist Yuda Braun confronts the dichotomies of the complex Israeli reality.
Six years! How much longer?
A million Israelis are now in Hamas’s missile range; Israel needs Iron Dome policy corollary when dealing with Gaza terror regime.
Incoming rockets can’t deter incoming families
36 families move to Beersheba, Ashkelon, Kiryat Gat and Sderot as part of the Keren Kehilot Foundation for Community Revival in Israel.
Gush Katif evacuees to get higher compensation
Under new bill, gov’t to allocate NIS 300m. for home, business owners.