Gush Katif
‘I never knew my father’: Avichai Ayubi on loss, Israel’s orphaned generation, and moving forward
Avichai was born five months after his father's death. But that is not to say his father's presence has not played an important role in his life.
Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement
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
Ariel Sharon’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza created an opportunity for Hamas to rise, leading to devastating consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians.
Not the military experience I intended: Gaza, 2005 and 2025 - opinion
'On the 10th anniversary of the evacuation, TV channels looked back on the disengagement and broadcast the clip of that haunting scene. I was shocked to hear my own voice.'
Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price
Disengagement was sold not just as a diplomatic move, but as a security one. Pulling out of Gaza, Ariel Sharon argued, would save lives.
Twenty years after Gaza withdrawal, threat of terror remains - opinion
The Palestinians had a chance to build a viable and flourishing presence in Gaza; instead, they opted for terrorism and hate.
The youth of Gush Katif: The trauma, struggles of the once-teens of Israel's Gaza settlements
How a few teens dealt with the trauma of the expulsion, and where are they today?
Gaza Disengagement twenty years later: A summer of changes and turbulence
Who knew then that 20 years later, Iran would be sending massive rockets, and Houthis would be blowing up ships?
It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform
For Religious Zionists, who link Torah, people, and land, the state’s bulldozers felt like a theological betrayal.
Shabbat Chazon: Cries of trauma, betrayal from Jerusalem and Gush Katif
Both Jerusalem and Gush Katif represent, in different ways, the spiritual and national trauma of Jewish exile and betrayal – both from without and from within.
20 years later: Israel's lessons learned from Gush Katif and Tisha B’Av - opinion
No one could have known for certain back in 2005 what would happen next, how just two years later, Hamas would violently seize control of Gaza and that it would lead to the October 7 massacre.
Ministers, MKs, settler organization demand tour of northern Gaza to explore settlement
Among the signatories calling for Defense Minister Israel Katz to facilitate a tour of north Gaza were six government ministers, including Itamar Ben-Gvir, Shlomo Karhi, and Amichai Eliyahu.
