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


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

Former IDF chief rabbi Rafi Peretz elected to lead Bayit Yehudi

Peretz is married and the father of 12 children. He lived in Gush Katif in Gaza before the disengagement, and currently lives in Neveh, in the Negev, with other Gaza evacuees.

Rafi Peretz

Report: Shin Bet eavesdropped on minor and mother in Jewish terror case

A report claims Israel's secret service has an underage student under surveillance.

Police raid the Pri Haaretz Yeshiva in Rechalim