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Sunday was Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting when Jews remember the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It was also the last day before the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip would be sealed off, and all residents would be expected to leave...
...Three Things From Israel's Pullout TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Matt Rees on the events in Gaza
...range of religious faith, from ultra-Orthodox to secular. Their second son Yochanan was killed in 1997, at age 22, while serving in an élite Israeli commando unit during a raid into Lebanon. The Hilburgs defied family members who urged that Yochanan receive a military funeral in Jerusalem. "He loved it here," says Bryna. "We decided he would be buried here, where he lived, where we can get to him." Now the Hilburgs face a second heartbreak: the Gush Katif cemetery housing 48 Jewish graves will have to be evacuated too. "They have to get out every single particle...
...Three Things From Israel's Pullout TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Matt Rees on the events in Gaza
...grandmother were Auschwitz survivors. He hoped that his adventure would be a happy respite from a hard winter for his embattled country: Israel could travel with him, to feel safe in a borderless universe. Even a Palestinian Authority spokesman had wished for his safe return. "We flew over Jerusalem," he said in an interview from space. "Israel looked so small and beautiful." He had asked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for an Israeli emblem to take with him. And he borrowed a drawing from Jerusalem's Holocaust museum--by Peter Ginz, a boy in a concentration camp--of what he thought...