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Jews visit demolished West Bank settlements for first time since pullout
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: settlers, disengagement 

Jews visited the destroyed West Bank settlements of Ganim and Kadim this week for the first time since the disengagement removed them from the map three years ago.

The visit began when the Glick family from Otniel, another West Bank settlement, decided to take a two-day tour of outposts in the northern West Bank. The tour had originally been intended to conclude with Homesh, another settlement evacuated during the disengagement, where there has been a continual Jewish presence in recent months.

But when Yehuda Glick arrived at Homesh with his wife and four children, they met up with the Goldmintzes, a family of five. The two families, along with some 10 other people, then decided to go on to Sa-Nur, the last of the four West Bank settlements evacuated during the disengagement. And once at Sa-Nur, they decided to complete the round of evacuated settlements by visiting Ganim and Kadim as well.
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The two settlements were a wasteland, Glick said, with little but the sewers to show they had ever been inhabited. But at Kadim, the visitors left a stone bearing the date and the following legend: "A first step toward bringing the Jews back home."

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      8.   Plenty land for Israeli Jews outside the Westbank 12:01  |  Sara 29/08/08
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