Disengagement

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Calev Ben David and Elliot Jager break down crucial news stories.

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

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

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform

SECURITY FORCES are on the scene as residents of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif resist eviction in August 2005. The writer asks: Knowing what we know now, shouldn’t we, at the very least, acknowledge the possibility that some of those protesters were right?

20 years later: Israel's lessons learned from Gush Katif and Tisha B’Av - opinion


Netanyahu causing cumulative damage to US-Israel ties - editorial

While Israel can withstand US disapproval of one policy or another, when the disagreements come in quick succession there is a concern about accumulative impact.

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023.

Israel trashed US two-state hopes but did it violate the Bush agreement? - analysis

Bush’s Road Map, which Israel signed onto in 2002 with reservations, called on the Jewish state to freeze all settlement activity including what was needed for natural growth.

FORMER PRIME minister Ariel Sharon (left) meets with then-US president George W. Bush during the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations

Israel repealed the Disengagement law: What comes next? - explainer

Peace Now warned that the repeal of the Disengagement Law sends the message that "settler violence and Palestinian land theft is effective and appropriate."

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

Hundreds of Israeli settlers break through checkpoint into Homesh - report

Israeli security forces are reportedly preparing to evacuate the crowds of people. 

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

Knesset repeals Disengagement as MK calls to return to Gaza Strip

Right-wing MKs praised the repeal of the Disengagement Law, while some are marking the return to Gush Katif as the next goal.

 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

US opposes Israeli bill to repeal Disengagement in northern Samaria

The Knesset approved the repeal of the 2005 Disengagement Law in its second and third readings.

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

Israeli judicial reform is tit-for-tat over Gaza Disengagement

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The Israeli judicial reform’s emotional roots were planted in the summer of 2005 and a feeling of betrayal.

 A 2004 PROTEST in downtown Jerusalem against the government’s plan to disengage from Gaza.

Bill to cancel north Samaria disengagement heads to first Knesset reading

The original Disengagement Bill from 2005 included a clause that bars Israeli citizens from reentering any of the evacuated areas.

 Construction is underway on Israel's new security barrier in northern Samaria

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.