Gush Katif

Smotrich says plans for north Gaza settlements await Netanyahu's approval

The finance minister’s statements calling for West Bank and Gaza annexation often draw sharp international condemnation, as well as criticism for harming Israel’s global standing.

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026.
A memorial ceremony at the Nova festival marking two years since the October 7 massacre when Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, murdering more than 1200 people. October 07, 2025.

Israel gave up Gush Katif and got Oct. 7. Why does Trump think Iran will be different? - opinion

Avichai Ayubi.

‘I never knew my father’: Avichai Ayubi on loss, Israel’s orphaned generation, and moving forward

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

Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement


'Gush Katif evacuees more prone to health risks'

Study: Men who were evacuated from Gush Katif settlements in 2005 have more diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure.

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No end in sight for Gush Katif expellees

It’s been far too long without a remedy, and still there is no end in sight.

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Meet the new MK: Zvulun Kalfa

Sixth in a series on the 48 new members of the 19th Knesset: Bayit Yehudi’s ‘Mayor of the City of Faith.’

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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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