Bnei Atzmon (Hebrew: בני עצמון) was an Israeli settlement originally founded in 1979 in the Yamit region of the Sinai peninsula as a response to Camp David Accords which promoted trading territory for peace. The yishuv was relocated to the Gush Katif region of the Gaza Strip about three kms north of Rafah after the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty and the subsequent evacuation of Sinai in 1982. The settlement in the Sinai was originally named Atzmona, but since that location was evacuated and Israeli law forbids renaming a new location with the name of a previously existing legal entity, Bnei Atzmon became the officially registered name. Nonetheless, the name Atzmona was more widely known. The Orthodox Jewish moshav was associated iwth the Amana settlement organization. Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Yamit (ימית) was an Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula established during Israels occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six Day War until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in 1982 as part of the terms of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. ... Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 For other uses of the word Sinai, please see: Sinai (disambiguation). ... Celebrating the signing of the Camp David Accords (1978): Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. ... Yishuv is a Hebrew word meaning settlement. ... Gush Katif Gush Katif (also Gush Katiff, Hebrew: גוש קטיף, English: Harvest Belt) was a bloc of 16 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip. ... A kilometer (Commonwealth spelling: kilometre), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Rafah (Arabic: رفح Hebrew: רפיח) is a town in the Gaza Strip, on the Egyptian border, and a nearby town on the Egyptian side of the border, on the Sinai Peninsula. ... The Israel-Egypt peace treaty (Arabic: معاهدة السلام المصرية الإسرائيلية; transliterated: Muahadat as-Salam al-Masriyah al-Israyliyah) (Hebrew: הסכם שלום ישראל-מצרים; transliterated: Heskem Shalom Yisrael-Mizraim) was signed in Washington, DC, United States, on March 26, 1979, following the Camp David Accords (1978). ... Orthodox Judaism is the stream of Judaism which adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmud (The Oral Law) and later codified in the Shulkhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law). It is governed by these works and the Rabbinical commentary... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Moshav (Hebrew: מושב Translit. ...

It was home to about 90 families, including just under 600 people, at the time of its destruction as a result of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan on August 17, 2005. While some form of opposition had been expected from residents in this nationalistic settlement, the actual expulsion was carried out without active or even passive resistance. The pre-army preparatory program was also pulled without resistance, with the participation of several senior army officers who had been invited especially for this "pull-out". A map illustrating the four phases of the Gaza disengagement plan. ...

Education

The Regional Talmud Torah School for nearby children was located on this yishuv, as well as the prestigious pre-army service preparatory school, Otzem with 150 students under the leadership of the Rabbi Rafi Peretz. On the settlement was a branch of the Ariel youth organization. A youth organization is a formal organization aimed at children and adolescents for education and socialization. ...

Economy

Several local industries provided employment for residents areas including the Atzmona nursery for house plants, which was the second largest in Israel, and a factory producing cleaning materials.

In the cooperative settlement, there was area of more than 50 000 dunams (50 km²) of field crops in the Besor area, 12 dunams (12,000 m²) of turkey coops, a barn, building company.

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• Aerial photo of Bnei Atzmon
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