Disengagement

MKs attend reestablishment of West Bank settlement of Ganim, 21 years after disengagement

Katz and MK Yuli Edelstein attended the inauguration ceremony, breaking ground alongside Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan and several other members of Knesset.

Jews return to the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005 as part of Israel’s Disengagement Plan, August 13, 2026.
GUSH KATIF’S pioneers made the desert bloom: Entrance to Neveh Dekalim, seen July 2005.

Why Israel must reverse the 2005 Gaza withdrawal, resettle Gush Katif - opinion

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon is seen in an archive image taken during the 1980s

Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price


Judicial reform protests akin to Huwara settler violence, Netanyahu suggests

The prime minister said that the protesters should learn from demonstrators who opposed the Disengagement Law in 2005.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu looks toward MK Simcha Rothman as they confer with Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset last week. Levin and Rothman have been emphasizing the larger public welfare, says the writer

Disengagement repeal law passes preliminary vote on Knesset floor

The bill passed the vote with 62 MKs supporting the bill and 36 voting against it. It will now move to one of the Knesset's committees before a first reading on the Knesset floor.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Israel moves to reverse 2005 Disengagement, starting in West Bank

Yossi Dagan: "It is impossible to describe the excitement that comes as an injustice that has gone on for years is corrected.”

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Israeli ministers to vote on reversing disengagement in northern Samaria

Once approved by the Knesset, the legislation would pave the way for the reconstruction of the four communities razed there that year.

 Israeli soldiers block the entrance to Homesh, in the West Bank, on May 28, 2022.

Court backs settler evacuation on Homesh, upholds Palestinian rights

The court didn’t directly order the evacuation, but it accepted the state’s declaration of intent to evacuate the small illegallybuilt modular seminary.

 Israeli soldiers block the entrance to Homesh, in the West Bank, on May 28, 2022.

Knesset to vote on repealing Disengagement Law that makes Homesh illegal

The Disengagement Law passed in 2005, leading to the evacuation of Gush Katif and four Jewish settlements in northern Samaria.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Israeli-Palestinian confederation plan to be presented to UN, US by Beilin

Former justice minister Yossi Beilin's plan for an Israeli-Palestinian confederation, allowing for settlements, is headed to the UN and US.

 Yossi Beilin attends a memorial ceremony of the Meretz political party for late Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin, in Rabin's Monument site at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on November 4, 2021.

Terror victim’s widow calls for rally to save Homesh

The date of the Jerusalem protest marks the 30th day since Palestinian gunmen killed Yehuda, 25, as he left the Homesh hilltop.

  Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Ethia Dimentman with her son David at the Jerusalem protest tent outside Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's Office.

Palestinians injured in violent clashes near Homesh

Settlers protest demolition of homes on Homesh hilltop

 Palestinians protest against Jewish settlements, in Burqa village, December 24, 2021

On this day in 2005: Israel completes disengagement from the Gaza Strip

The disengagement plan evicted over 9,000 Israeli citizens from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.

 Tree is decorated with orange ribbons in front of destroyed Jewish settler houses in former Jewish settlement of Gadid in Gaza Strip, August, 2005.