Meet Shifra Shomron - During the last years of Gush Katif, Shifra Shomron, then a teenager finishing high school, kept a diary and published several articles and poems about life in Neve Dekalim. A glimpse at the author Shifra Shomron with a personal look into the writing of her first novel...

No words can describe the agony of a family burning down its own house in Gush Katif (Neve Dekalim) during the black day of the forceful expulsion in 2005. This was done moments prior to the family's being evicted and to prevent the house from falling into the hands of the gaza arab gangs. And,...

Shai Ben-Tekoa unwinds the myth of "peace with Egypt" and analyzes the recent break in "Egyptian security" that was promised to Israel in the southern Gaza Strip post-evacuation in summer 2005. Very important analysis of current events - raw truth.

"Disengaging Democracy" Film: Disengaging Democracy, from award winning documentary filmmaker Igal Hecht, takes a rare and provocative look at what happened to Israeli democracy before, during, and after the historical Gaza Disengagement of 2005. In October 2004, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel...

Shifra Shomron, author of the book Grains of Sand: The Fall of Neve Dekalim, and former settler of Gush Katif, on her perspective of the Disengagement from Gaza, and how the evacuees have been holding up. An amazing message of future hope and an appeal for aliyah!

In August of 2005 Israel removed nearly ten thousand Israeli citizens from the Gaza strip. Though hailed as a great military success, the aftermath and rehabilitation of the removed has been described as a humanitarian disaster. Igal Hecht and Chutzpah Productions have spent eight months...

This video presentation is both powerful and even dated - entitled "One Year Without Gush Katif" - we are now closing in on three years since the drunken and insane act of forcefully removing Jewish residents from their Gaza Strip homes of decades. Considering what is happening now in Sderot and...

This is a very touching music video of how the lives of the residents of Gush Katif were affected when they had to leave their homes and lives there. video source: Yochai Cohen of Israel.