Tag: Gush Katif
Settlement mega-event calls for Jewish return to Gaza
In an exuberant display of support for re-establishing Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip, 5,000 activists filled three large halls to overflowing at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on Sunday night.
A kind of...
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...
Movie Brings You Back to Gush Katif
Neta Sternberg was nineteen when she filmed the documentary movie, “Between Heaven and Sand” which tells the tragic, yet unexpectedly inspiring story of the evacuation and destruction of Netzarim, one of the communities buried...
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...