Former evacuee from Gush Katif: ‘The expulsion from Gaza was a miracle’ Einat Bloch, a teenage activist at the time of the Gaza pullout in 2005, says that leaving Gaza saved her community from an Oct. 7-style attack. Orit Arfa June 26, 2025
Jewish return advocate: Gaza must be ‘continuation’ of the Western Negev “It should be a strip of land open to all, not something closed,” says Meir Dana-Picard, a leader of the 2005 resistance against disengagement. Orit Arfa June 19, 2025
‘You don’t look around for a new cemetery,’ says mother of fallen Israeli naval commando Bryna Hilburg, a symbol of the bereaved families of Gush Katif, talks to JNS about the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the prospect of reinterring the remains of her son in Gaza. Orit Arfa June 12, 2025
Former Gush Katif resident Laurence Beziz: ‘We won’t say we told you so’ “The idea is not to go back to Gush Katif but to go back to a type of social, historical, Zionist, Jewish awareness that it’s a part of the State of Israel.” Orit Arfa June 5, 2025
They will destroy, and we will build My mother has studied and experienced enough of Jewish history to be wary of its repeated patterns of tragedy and dislocation, and the chronic failures of overconfidence. Rabbi Moshe Hauer Jan. 27, 2025
Thousands to march for Gaza resettlement on Independence Day According to the Nahala Movement, over 6,500 people were signed up for the march as of Monday. May 14, 2024
Witnessing Israelis’ will to fight on until complete victory Despite the difficult challenges the Jewish people currently face, we will win. Kobi Erez Feb. 6, 2024
US, France criticize Gaza resettlement conference “This rhetoric is incendiary and irresponsible, and we take the prime minister at his word when he says that Israel does not intend to reoccupy Gaza," the White House said. Jan. 30, 2024
Settlement mega-event calls for Jewish return to Gaza A majority of Israelis support Jews living in the Strip. David Isaac Jan. 29, 2024
