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.

An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.
 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.

This week in Jewish history: The 2005 Gaza Disengagement

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon addresses the cabinet at a meeting in 2004, ahead of a vote on approving a Gaza pullout. Let’s not forget a key cause of our ongoing disaster – Sharon’s 2005 ‘disengagement’ from Gaza, the writer charges.

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.

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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.

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Civil disobedience

The minority would have the right to oppose the decision, and even more so if the leader was corrupt.

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April 5: Some ‘initiative’

Israel can never agree to these terms. So much for illusions of the Saudi initiative.

The Jerusalem Post

‘I live in Gush Katif so you can live in TA’

The irony of an increasingly isolated Israel becomes more and more bitter.

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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.

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The white soldier

Performance artist Yuda Braun confronts the dichotomies of the complex Israeli reality.

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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.

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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.

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Gush Katif evacuees to get higher compensation

Under new bill, gov’t to allocate NIS 300m. for home, business owners.

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