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Netzer Hazani was an Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
 located in the northeast corner of the Gush Katif
Gush Katif

Gush Katif was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the 8,000 residents of Gush Katif were forcefully evicted from the area and their homes demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan....
 settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel's disengagement
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza pull-out plan", and "Hitnatkut") was a proposal by Prime Ministers of Israel Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four Israeli settlements in the northern West...
 of 2005. The settlement was named after the late Michael Hazani, Minister of Social Welfare and Agriculture and one of the pioneers of the settlement movement.

Netzer Hazani was originally founded as a paramilitary Nahal
Nahal

Nahal is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade. Historically, it refers to a program that combines military service and establishment of new agricultural settlements, often in outlying areas....
 (Fighting Pioneer Youth) settlement called Gadish on May 29, 1973, and handed over to civilians in February 1977 as an Orthodox
Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
 moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
 becoming the first civilian village of Gush Katif.






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Netzer Hazani was an Israeli settlement
Israeli settlement

Israeli settlements are communities inhabited by Israelis in territory that was captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is partially under Israeli military administration and partially under the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which are under Isr...
 located in the northeast corner of the Gush Katif
Gush Katif

Gush Katif was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the 8,000 residents of Gush Katif were forcefully evicted from the area and their homes demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan....
 settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel's disengagement
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza pull-out plan", and "Hitnatkut") was a proposal by Prime Ministers of Israel Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four Israeli settlements in the northern West...
 of 2005. The settlement was named after the late Michael Hazani, Minister of Social Welfare and Agriculture and one of the pioneers of the settlement movement.

Netzer Hazani was originally founded as a paramilitary Nahal
Nahal

Nahal is an Israel Defense Forces infantry brigade. Historically, it refers to a program that combines military service and establishment of new agricultural settlements, often in outlying areas....
 (Fighting Pioneer Youth) settlement called Gadish on May 29, 1973, and handed over to civilians in February 1977 as an Orthodox
Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
 moshav
Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms settlered by the Labor Zionisms during the second aliyah ....
 becoming the first civilian village of Gush Katif. On the day of the ceremony, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin

was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
 announced, "This is a great day for the State of Israel and for Jewish settlement, a day which symbolizes our deep-rooted presence in this area, which has since the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
 become an integral part of the State and its security". After the ceremony Rabin fixed the first Mezuza on the entrance to one of the houses, together with the son of the late minister Hazani.

Most residents earned their living from agriculture. In the 70's and 80's, the main crop was floral, later in the 90's, vegetables would be grown in the greenhouses. Towards the end of the 90's, the Netzer Hazani farmers joined other farmers in Gush Katif, in growing bug-free leafy vegetables and herbs. A budding organic agriculture initiative was also successful.

The chief rabbi of Netzer Hazani, Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, (aged 40, married with six children) was shot and killed by a member of the Islamic Jihad
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine is a Palestinian militant organization which is designated as a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia and Israel....
 group as he was driving with his family in Gush Katif on December 20, 2002.

Residents of Netzer Hazani were forcefully evicted on August 18, 2005 by the IDF
Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew Acronym and initialism Tzahal , are Israel's military forces, comprising the GOC Army Headquarters, Israeli Air Force and Israeli navy....
 and Israeli Police. By that time, it was home to 84 families including over 410 people.

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