The Israeli settlement of Bnei Atzmon was founded in 1979 in the Yamit region of the Sinai peninsula, and relocated to the Gush Katif region after the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty and 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 that of a previously existing legal entity, Bnei Atzmon became the officially registered name of the Orthodox Jewish moshav though Atzmona was more widely known. The Regional Talmud Torah School for girls and boys was located there, as well as the prestigious pre-army service preparatory school, Otzem with 150 students. Several local industries provide employment for residents areas including the Atzmona nursery for house plants, the second largest in Israel, turkey breeding, field crops and a factory producing cleaning materials. For Israeli settlements in Israel proper, see Settlements in Israel Israeli settlements are communities built for Israeli Jewish settlers in areas that it captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. ... 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 The Sinai Peninsula (in Arabic, Shibh Jazirat Sina) is a triangle-shaped peninsula lying between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south). ... Map of the Gaza Strip, showing the settlements of Gush Katif Gush Katif (also Gush Katiff, Hebrew: גוש קטיף, English: Harvest Belt) was a bloc of Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip. ... The Israel-Egypt peace treaty was signed in Washington on March 26, 1979 as the first of 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 (plural as mashavim)is a type of collective agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the labour Zionists during the second aliyah (wave of Jewish immigration during the 19th Century) The moshavs are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labour and were designed as part of the...

It was home to about 90 families, including just under 600 people, at the time of it's destruction as a result of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan on August 17, 2005. A map illustrating the four phases of the Gaza disengagement plan. ...

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