Gush Katif

Smotrich says plans for northern 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


Bible scrolls from around the world - in pictures

A photo essay captures the stories of six Torah scrolls from around the world - Yemen, Siberia, France, Germany - which all ended up in Israel.

 THE WIESLOCH Torah scroll.

Gaza Disengagement and the expulsion’s impact on religious-Zionism

The religious trauma was felt by many in the religious-Zionist camp who, though not residents of the uprooted settlements, also shared the divine drama ideal.

MOURNING, KFAR DAROM, August 18, 2005

Gaza's settlers 15 years on: 'One day we will have to return'

A ‘Jerusalem Post’ reporter, on the frontlines in Gush Katif, recounts the surreal time of disconnect between settlers’ lost dreams and the encroaching destructive reality.

SETTLERS DANCE and sing in front of IDF troops outside the Neveh Dekalim synagogue on August 18, 2005

Gaza Disengagement: Reporting from the trenches

‘The Jerusalem Post’s then-defense correspondent opens up his reporter’s notebook on the disengagement, 15 years on.

OPPONENTS OF the disengagement plan from Gaza confront Border Police at the synagogue in the settlement of Kfar Darom in August 2005.

Gaza Disengagement: Memories and lessons 15 years on

‘The Jerusalem Post’s editor-in-chief remembers his experiences as a reporter for the paper during this tumultuous time.

AN IDF soldier evicts residents from their Neveh Dekalim home on August 18, 2005

Grapvine August 2, 2020: A painful anniversary

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

TAMAR BAKSHI

Gush Katif - Lessons of the Gaza withdrawal 15 years on

We owe it to ourselves and to the thousands of Jews who were banished to distill the lessons of that disaster and ensure that it never again recurs.

DEMOLISHING THE Ganey Tal settlement in Gush Katif, Gaza, during the disengagement, on August 22, 2005

The pioneers of Halutza

When terrorists throw rockets, we build communities. We plant a tree and build a park and bring new families to the area. This is our answer to terror’ – Yedidya Harush, Jewish National Fund-USA

The pioneers Halutza

Tali Hatuel, 4 daughters remembered 15 years after deadly terror attack

On May 2, 2004 - Iyar 11, 5764 - two terrorists ambushed Hatuel's car near the Kissufim crossing. The terrorists killed them all at point-blank range, shooting them repeatedly.

A general view shows the five bodies of the Hatuel family, the pregnant mother Tali and her four daughters.

Otzma candidate Ben-Gvir calls for return to Gush Katif

Itamar Ben-Gvir called for Israel to return to Gush Katif, the bloc of Gaza Jewish communities evicted in 2005, as a response to the continued rocket fire on Israel's South.

Itamar Ben-Gvir from the Otzma Yehudit party, attends a hearing at Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem March 13, 2019