Yamit (Hebrew: ימית) was an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula [1] with a population of about 2,500 people. Yamit was established during Israel's 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 April 1982, as part of the terms of the 1979 ...

Israel initially seized the Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Crisis, when it attacked Egypt in response to its blockade of Israeli passage through the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran; the Egyptians had been contesting Israel's freedom of navigation through there since 1949, impacting the country's ability to import and export goods during the ...

Across the Sinai, fourteen separate Jewish communities had been established during the inter-war periods, primarily built with encouragement from the government to act as a security buffer between Egypt and Israel. Yamit was the largest of the …

2022年4月14日 · Back to the Israeli Sinai Desert Town That Vanished. They built a new town on a desert paradise, less than a decade later they were evicted with chains and cages. A new miniseries looks at the story of Yamit, 40 years after its dismantlement

2012年4月11日 · 30 years after evacuation of north Sinai settlement, former residents reflect on their past lives. When Isaac Shachar left the north Sinai settlement of Yamit as a 36-year-old firefighter and...

2019年3月22日 · There, amid the sand dunes, one can still see the bare and bulldozed ground where the town of Yamit, a thriving Jewish community of 2,500 people, once stood, until it was uprooted and destroyed...

Yamit and the surrounding villages were civilian outposts, requiring by their very nature the protection of Israel’s army and air force based in Sinai. But in those euphoric years after the...

2023年11月16日 · Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan even proposed building a new Israeli port city southwest of Gaza inside Sinai called Yamit. He envisioned the city’s population growing to 250,000 by 2000 if Israel ended up controlling Sinai indefinitely.

After investing $300 million in the Bar Lev Line, not to mention hundreds of millions more into the air bases, roads and other infrastructure in the Sinai, Israeli decided to build a model city in the Sinai: Yamit, situated at the end of the Gaza Strip.

2010年4月22日 · After Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day War, my father was working in Sinai, building fortifications for the Israeli Army that were supposed to be Israel’s impenetrable line of defense against...