Elei Sinai
Elei Sinai <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />אֱלֵי סִינַי |
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Founded | 1983 |
Elei Sinai (Hebrew: <templatestyles src="Script/styles_hebrew.css" />אֱלֵי סִינַי, lit. Towards Sinai) was an Israeli settlement in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Founding
Elei Sinai was established in 1982 (Sukkot 5743) by a group who had been evicted from Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula. It was named for the yearning to return to the Sinai desert, where Yamit was located.
Avi Farhan, a Yamit expellee, and Arik Herfez, whose daughter had been killed by Palestinian militants, were two of the most notable residents.
Unilateral Disengagement
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Among the arguments in opposition to Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, which stated that the settlers should be evicted from Elei Sinai, was a proposal by Farhan allowing the settlers to remain in their homes as Palestinian citizens,[1][2] an idea the Palestinians the Israeli government rejected.
The residents had actually left their homes voluntarily but returned after realizing that the government had no place to send them.[clarification needed]
On 21 August 2005, the approximately 100 families living in the village, were surrendered by IDF forces, and were forcefully evicted before the village was demolished.[3] After the eviction, a group of fifty families established themselves at the Yad Mordechai junction as a protest that the government hadn't found a community solution for them. Others were sent to the Shirat HaYam hotel. The rest of the settlement later split into a few groups, including those now found in:
- Karmia, who were promised future homes in Talmei Yafeh close to Ashkelon.
- Or HaNer, who were promised future homes in the Bat Hadar neighborhood close to Ashkelon.
Farhan and a part of his family establish a new group and hope to establish a new community in the center of the country. The government agreed in 2006 to acclimatize this group in Palmachim.