Gan Or (גן אור) was an Israeli settlement located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel's disengagement of 2005. On the day of its evacuation, it was home to 52 families including over 320 people. 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. ... 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. ... A map illustrating the four phases of the Gaza disengagement plan. ...

Gan Or was founded in 1983 as an Orthodox moshav by a group of former members of the Bnei Akiva Mizrachi youth group as well as the Hesder yeshiva program. Prior to evacuation, the community had successfully completed building a synagogue and adjacent events hall. Founded in 2000, the Tohar Girls College, had offered combined religious studies and academic courses at the Open University and at Bar-Ilan University’s campus at nearby Ashkelon, has been relocated and is currently operating. 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... 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... Bnei Akivas emblem (semel) Bnei Akiva is the worlds largest youth movement of Religious Zionism. ... The Mizrachi (acronym for Merkaz Ruchani or religious centre) is the name of the religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilna at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines. ... Hesder (in Hebrew:regulation) or Yeshivat Hesder is a yeshiva which combines high religious studies with a shortened military service. ... Yeshiva or yeshivah (Hebrew: ישיבה pl. ... The Open University (OU) is the UKs open learning university, established in 1969. ... Bar-Ilan University (BIU, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן) is a university in Ramat Gan, Israel. ... Ashkelon or Ashqelon (Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן; Standard Hebrew AÅ¡qÉ™lon; Tiberian Hebrew ʾAÅ¡qÉ™lôn; Arabic عسقلان   Ê¿Asqalān?; Latin Ascalon) was an ancient Philistine seaport on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea just north of Gaza. ...

Gadid was officially evacuated on August 18, 2005 by the Israeli Army and Israeli Police, though most of the residents had left earlier without resistance. A majority of the families moved to the temporary refuge of Nitzan to which several hundred evacuated families from Gush Katif were relocated. August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces (army, air force and navy). ... Israeli Police logo The Israeli police (משטרת ישראל) is a civilian force in the State of Israel. ... 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. ...