Activists this week reached the ruins of Kadim and Ganim in northern Samaria for the first time since the government destroyed the Jewish communities and expelled the residents three summers ago. Approximately 20 people, including children, said they wanted "to show the Almighty their determination to return to the communities from where they were uprooted."
After prayers and dancing, one of the activists took a stone and wrote on the road, "24th of Menachem Av, 5768--the first step of the return of Jews to their homes." The Hebrew date corresponds to August 25, this past Monday.