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Twenty Years Later—Remembering the Uprooting of Gush Katif 

JL;DR SUMMARY Twenty years after the Israeli government's eviction of nearly 10,000 Israelis from their homes in Gush Katif during the 2005 disengagement, many former residents, like Anita Tucker, continue to grapple with its repercussions. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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CommunityTraumaResilienceGush KatifRebuildingAgricultureNetzer HazaniEvictionDisengagement

Places mentioned

Netzer Hazani, Southern District, Israel
"Today Netzer Hazani is a beautiful thriving town with a shul, a simchah hall and a youth center."
Ashkelon, Southern District, Israel
"We spent seven years in caravans waiting for our new homes to be built . . . some families with six kids had to live in those caravans."
Eilat, Southern District, Israel
"After they were pulled from their homes, the Tuckers and their neighbors ended up in hotels, youth hostels and kibbutz guest houses, mainly in Jerusalem, Ashkelon and Eilat."
Jerusalem, Israel
"After they were pulled from their homes, the Tuckers and their neighbors ended up in hotels, youth hostels and kibbutz guest houses, mainly in Jerusalem, Ashkelon and Eilat."
Kiryat Gat, Southern District, Israel
"They [the government] rented empty apartments in the south, in Beer Sheva, Ofakim and Kiryat Gat, with the idea that these would be the permanent homes for the evacuees."
Beersheba, Southern District, Israel
"They [the government] rented empty apartments in the south, in Beer Sheva, Ofakim and Kiryat Gat, with the idea that these would be the permanent homes for the evacuees."
Ofakim, Southern District, Israel
"They [the government] rented empty apartments in the south, in Beer Sheva, Ofakim and Kiryat Gat, with the idea that these would be the permanent homes for the evacuees."
Ein Tzurim, Southern District, Israel
"After living for a year at the youth hostel of Kibbutz Ein Tzurim, near Ashkelon, the Tuckers moved to a caravilla (caravan home) on the agricultural fields of Ein Tzurim where they remained for years, living on land the government leased from the kibbutz."
Shavei Darom, Southern District, Israel
"The last holdouts, a group of thirteen families who remained for six years, relocated together to the new village of Shavei Darom, named after their destroyed town."
Ariel, Southern District, Israel
"Billig cites the Netzarim evacuees who formed the nucleus of Ariels Garin Torani (a group of young Religious Zionist families who move together into a neighborhood to effect social change and strengthen Judaism)."
Shomria, Southern District, Israel
"As an example of successful replanters, Billig points to evacuees from the Gush Katif town of Atzmona who made their homes in an abandoned secular kibbutz called Shomria, which they transformed into a thriving moshav that now houses nearly 900 people."
Moshav Yesodot, Southern District, Israel
"Eventually Tucker moved, along with ninety of her former neighbors, to a new home, named after her old home, Netzer Hazani. Her new community is located on agricultural land that she and her neighbors purchased from Moshav Yesodot in central Israel."
Gush Etzion, Jerusalem, Israel
"In the aftermath of the disengagement, Rabbi Rimon visited the evacuees and helped get them back on their feet, a process that took many long years.  \Photo: Eddie Gerald/Alamy Stock Photo"
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