Tag: Gaza Disengagement
Gallant opens door to Jewish return to evacuated part of Samaria
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has instructed Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, head of the IDF Central Command, to sign an order that could allow Jews to once more live in Homesh, one of the four...
The Gaza Strip and learning to live with insoluble problems
Upon its conclusion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly lauded the Israel Defense Forces for its brilliant work during “Operation Shield and Arrow.” The five-day campaign exacted a heavy toll on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)...
Gaza’s ghosts
In a jaw-dropping display of irony, on Wednesday the Neve Dekalim Girl’s High School was forced to cancel a scheduled celebration to mark its 40th birthday.
Since 2005, the school has been located in Nitzan,...
US ‘extremely troubled’ that Knesset rescinded parts of disengagement law
The Knesset voted 31-18 on March 21 to repeal articles of the 2005 Gaza Disengagement Law, which banned Israelis from entering and living in four communities in northern Samaria. Hours later, a spokesman for the U.S....
Why we desperately need Israeli judicial reform
In June 1992, with the defeat of Israel’s Likud government and the ascension of the Labor Party to power, the Palestine Liberation Organization, an outlawed terrorist organization in a state of total war against...
Gush Katif conference relives loss of Gaza communities, studies rifts in Israeli society
It was 16 years ago Monday— the 10th of Av in the Hebrew calendar—that more than 8,000 Jews were evicted from their homes in the Gaza Strip in what was officially known as the...
15 years after disengagement from Gaza, area still mired by violence
Israel will mark 15 years since the 2005 Gaza Disengagement—former Prime Minister’s Ariel Sharon’s operation to evict all 8,000 or so Israelis from the Gazan Jewish communities of Gush Katif, along with those in...