Attorney General Menachem Mazuz announced his approval on Thursday of a government plan to house Jews from the former Gaza town of Kfar Darom in a new community to be built near Nir Akiva, a small farming community outside the city of Netivot. The decision came more than four years after Kfar Darom's approximately 100 families were forcibly removed from their homes by the Israeli government in the 2005 expulsion known as the “Disengagement".
The community will be located 26 kilometers from the demolished town of Kfar Darom.