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.

Avichai Ayubi.
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

 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

This week in Jewish history: The 2005 Gaza Disengagement

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement


Coalition of 11 right-wing organizations unveils Gaza strip resettlement initiative

The overarching objective is to fortify the security belt and reestablish a Jewish presence in these regions.

 Signs are displayed outside a visitor's center in Nitzan near Ashod, Israel, that commemorates the former Gush Katif Jewish settlements in Gaza , August 9, 2015

Make Gaza Israel again - opinion

Aside from toppling Hamas and freeing the hostages, let’s rebuild the Jewish communities of Gush Katif that were uprooted 18 years ago and restore a civilian Jewish presence in Gaza.

 REBUILD OUR greenhouses: In the former Gush Katif, 2020.

Grapevine July 21, 2023: A deliberate omission?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG with US President Joe Biden at the White House

Hamas terrorist and brother of Hadar Goldin kidnapper freed to Gaza

Yusuf Masoud was arrested in 2003 and convicted of launching rockets at the Gush Katif settlement bloc before the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

 Palestinian terrorists attend Hamas rally Solidarity with Al-Aqsa in Jabalia, northern Gaza April 7, 2023

'This is a battle for our lives,' determined Sderot resident says

Ishai Trabelsi has lived under the shadow of Gaza terrorism his whole life - first in Gush Katif and later, after the evacuation, close to the border in the town of Sderot.

 Ishai Trabelsi stands in the yard of his Sderot home amid the risk of rockets fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad during Operation Shield and Arrow, May 11, 2023.

Letters to the Editor February 22, 2023: Collecting dust

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Israeli journalist, activist Arnon Segal to run in Religious Zionist primaries

Arnon Segal, the brother of Israeli journalist Amit Segal, is a journalist and Temple Mount activist.

 Israeli journalist and Religious Zionist primaries candidate Arnon Segal

Police, left-wing activists clash over illegal Homesh march

Left-wing NGO Peace Now threatened it will knock the Homesh settlement down if the government does not enforce a law that forbids settlement.

 Left-wing protestors call on the government to dismantle 150 settlements, with a bulldozer allegedly intended for the razing of Homesh in the background, on May 28, 2022.

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