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

Disengagement was sold not just as a diplomatic move, but as a security one. Pulling out of Gaza, Ariel Sharon argued, would save lives.

|ByHERB KEINON
A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

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

For Religious Zionists, who link Torah, people, and land, the state’s bulldozers felt like a theological betrayal.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
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

No one could have known for certain back in 2005 what would happen next, how just two years later, Hamas would violently seize control of Gaza and that it would lead to the October 7 massacre.

|ByYAAKOV KATZ

Disengagement Trauma

Ten years on, many former Gush Katif residents are still mourning the loss of their homes.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015ByANDREW FRIEDMAN
Opponents of the disengagement from Gush Katif confront Border Policemen at the Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom as the pullout was underway, August 18, 2005

The humans behind the headlines

Orit Arfa's novel 'The Settler' aims to give the reader a better sense of the picture and human faces behind the disengagement of the Gaza Strip in 2005.

AUGUST 12, 2015ByLAURA KELLY
A woman prays during the evacuation of Gush Katif in 2005.

Edelstein and former Likud rebels say ‘I told you so’ on Gaza disengagement

Kahlon absent from reunion to mark 10 years since Gaza withdrawal.

JULY 28, 2015ByGIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN
Likud rebels – who fought to prevent the Gaza disengagement – meet with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in the Knesset

Know Comment: The malice of Gaza disengagement

Wrecking Gush Katif wasn’t really about peace with the Palestinians, but crushing religious Zionism.

JULY 23, 2015ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
An Israeli opponent of Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza mourns before evacuation in the Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom

Column One: The irony of the expulsions from Gaza

The settlements of Gaza were destroyed 10 years ago. Israel has been paying the physical price of the strategic lunacy of the withdrawal ever since.

JULY 23, 2015ByCAROLINE B. GLICK
OPPONENTS OF the disengagement plan from Gaza confront Border Police at the synagogue in the settlement of Kfar Darom in August 2005.

Ariel Sharon and the 10th of Shvat

JANUARY 11, 2014ByYISRAEL MEDAD
The Jerusalem Post

Ariel Sharon's Bold Zionist Pragmatism Saved Israel -- Twice

JANUARY 7, 2014ByGIL STERN STERN TROY
The Jerusalem Post

'Gush Katif evacuees more prone to health risks'

Study: Men who were evacuated from Gush Katif settlements in 2005 have more diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure.

MARCH 31, 2013ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Gush Katif settlers are evacuated from Gaza 311 (R)

No end in sight for Gush Katif expellees

It’s been far too long without a remedy, and still there is no end in sight.

FEBRUARY 12, 2013ByJOSH HASTEN
Gush Katif settlers are evacuated from Gaza 311 (R)

The disengagement as a system failure

Those who recognized the disengagement as the act of despotism it was ought to consider how our form of government affects the policies which are adopted and how it should be changed to ensure that a plan that pits soldiers against thousands of their countrymen is never approved again.

JANUARY 2, 2013ByDANIEL TAUBER
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal arrives in Gaza 370 (R)