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Yonatan Rom, left, who donated his kidney to Reuven Tam, right, recover together following the transplant at Clalit-Beilinson Hospital on July 14, 2026. Reuven's brother, Eyal Tam, saved Rom's life in a terrorist attack on March 7, 2002. (Courtesy/Clalit-Beilinson Hospital)
July 22, 2026, 1:08 pm
Man donates kidney to brother of man who saved his life in 2002 terror attack
Altruistic organ donation sees survivor of Gush Katif shooting that killed 5 and wounded 23 matched with sibling of commander of emergency response team who neutralized terrorist
By Diana Bletter
Israeli right-wing activists advocating Jewish settlement in Gaza gather on the border with the Gaza Strip as they attempt to cross over into the territory on July 19, 2026. (Ilia Yefimovich/AFP)
July 20, 2026, 2:34 am
Ministers join settler activists on march through closed military zone to Gaza border
Security forces do little to stop thousands of marchers from breaching IDF checkpoints while demonstrating for the reestablishment of settlements in the Strip; no arrests reported
By Charlie Summers
Pro-settlement activists gather near the Gaza Strip on July 9, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
July 19, 2026, 8:52 am
Military closes area around Gaza ahead of Likud-backed settler march into Strip
Ben Gvir, Smotrich, several other MKs expected to join Nachala-led march calling for Jewish settlement in Strip, as IDF says it will thwart any attempts to illegally enter Gaza
By ToI Staff
Settlers enter Gaza on December 18, 2025. (Nachala)
April 20, 2026, 1:50 pm
Radical settler group to stage march by Gaza border to ‘renew Jewish hold on Gaza Strip’
Nachala settlement cadres to be among participants; ‘It is our right to settle in the entire Land of Israel including Gaza,’ says Likud MK supporting Independence Day event
By Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on August 6, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 19, 2026, 3:05 pm
Smotrich calls to shutter US-led Gaza coordination center, resettle Strip
Far-right finance minister declares it’s ‘either us or them’ as he makes the case to reverse the 2005 disengagement, impose military rule over the Strip’s 2.3 million residents
By Sam Sokol and Reuters
Yossi Klein Halevi (courtesy)/ Former prime minister Ariel Sharon speaking to students on the first day of classes in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim, Sept. 1, 2004. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
August 29, 2025, 9:12 am
Friday Focus with Yossi Klein Halevi: Worse than Disengagement is a one-state ‘dissolution’
Hartman Institute senior fellow explains how 20 years ago, after failed promises of security from the right and of peace from the left, Israelis were eager to try the center’s unilateralism
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Yossi Klein Halevi
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (courtesy)/ Palestinian police set up Palestinian and Fatah flags on top of a synagogue in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip, September 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
August 22, 2025, 9:47 am
Friday Focus with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Disengagement through the eyes of a Gazan
Staunch anti-Hamas critic laments missed opportunity for a thriving independent Palestinian land that was usurped by the nihilistic mission of the terrorist entity that rules it
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Anita Tucker (ToI) / Israeli Jewish settlers celebrate the Jewish festival of Tu Bishvat, marking the new year for trees in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the Gush Katif block of settlements in the Gaza Strip, January 25, 2005. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
August 15, 2025, 12:02 pm
Friday Focus with Anita Tucker: A former Gush Katif resident yearns to go home
20 years ago, the Brooklyn native was forcibly pulled out of her home in Nezer Hazani, a settlement she cofounded with the blessing of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. She tells her tale
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Thousands of people turn out for an ultra-nationalist march and rally in Sderot to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in Gaza, May 14, 2024. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)
August 13, 2025, 8:37 am
How the movement to resettle Gaza entered the mainstream in the wake of October 7
Two decades after Disengagement, settler activists see a rare opening to make the Strip Jewish and are working relentlessly to corral political and public support for their plans
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, August 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
August 10, 2025, 3:38 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 10: Day 674 – What would Israel’s legal duties be in a Gaza City takeover?
Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon on the Jewish state’s obligations were it to occupy the city in the northwest of Gaza, and the growing Gush Katif resettlement movement
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, second left, and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, left, stand in a structure in the area of the former settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank, August 7, 2025. The two-word phrase, written in blue on the column on the photo's right, reads 'Death to Arabs.' (Roei Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)
August 7, 2025, 9:37 pm
Smotrich photographed next to ‘Death to Arabs’ graffiti, disavows message
Finance minister vows to undo 2005 Disengagement during tour of former settlement of Sa-Nur, marking 20 years since northern West Bank community was evacuated under the plan
By Sam Sokol, AFP and ToI Staff
Right-wing activists attend a rally calling for the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, near the border in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
July 31, 2025, 10:40 am
‘Ours forever’: Hundreds march from Sderot to Gaza border to demand resettlement
March by Nachala movement comes as idea of reestablishing Gaza settlements finds support in government and increasingly in the public, and officials threaten to annex parts of Strip
By Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and AFP
Israeli right-wing protesters gather on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip near the border fence on July 30, 2025, during a rally to mark 20 years since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
July 30, 2025, 8:48 pm
22 ministers and lawmakers demand settlement group be allowed to tour northern Gaza
Itamar Ben Gvir, Miki Zohar, Shlomo Karhi and May Golan all interested in taking part in mission to scout out locations for new settlements in ‘living heart of the Land of Israel’
By Sam Sokol
Arbel Zak, a senior Nachala leader, holds a map of envisioned settlements inside Gaza, at the Nahal Oz soldiers memorial overlooking Gaza, April 15, 2025. (Deborah Danan via JTA)
April 19, 2025, 9:30 am
Eyeing an opportunity, settlers move to border towns so they’re ready to return to Gaza
Activist says some 30 families living at temporary sites, but 800 have signed up to move to 6 potential settlements in Strip; group holds Passover seder in border area in symbolic call
By Deborah Danan
Settler activists dance at a conference calling for the establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza, close to the Israel-Gaza border, October 21, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
October 21, 2024, 8:22 pm
Senior ministers call for new settlements in Gaza at ultranationalist conference
‘Taking territory’ from Palestinians is what ‘hurts them most,’ says Likud minister Golan, while far-right police minister Ben Gvir says Gazans should be ‘encouraged’ to emigrate
By Jeremy Sharon
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