Yitzchak and Efrat Zimmerman and their children were expelled from their home in Gush Katif in the 2005 Disengagement from Gaza. Gush Katif was the region of some 20 Jewish towns along the southern Mediterranean coast that the Sharon-Olmert government demolished in hopes that it would increase security for Israel.
Today, the Zimmermans reside in Ariel, 17 miles east of Tel Aviv, but they never stopped longing for home.
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Since moving to Ariel, Yitzchak started studying alternative medicine and reflexology. Efrat was a social worker.
"The spirit of Gush Katif is such that we lived in a miraculous way," Yitzchak says in the documentary series "Expelled." "It was as if we were living in the desert and the Lord was present with us in a cloud. The Lord watched over us in a wondrous way.
"It was paradise," he says, weeping.
On the day in August 2005 that the Sharon government forcibly removed the Jewish residents from Gaza, the Zimmermans sealed their house and stayed inside for at least six hours while soldiers tried to get in. Finally, the soldiers broke in through a window.
"Sometimes I think we should have done more than we did," says Efrat. "I ask myself, why did you give up your house so easily?"
But the Zimmermans are also bitter at the state, which they believe is alienated from its people.
"To this day, I refuse to sing Hativkah," Efrat says. "I don't raise the flag on Independence Day - just the orange flag."
Since the expulsion, the couple has become more religious, saying they must rely on God's leadership instead of that of the state. They still hope to go back to their home in Gush Katif.
"The leftists thought that through the expulsion they would cause us to despair," Yitzchak says. "But it only made us stronger. We shall return to Gush Katif."
This broadcast is the next installment in a new four-part series called "Expelled," documenting the stories of four families who were evicted from Gush Katif three years ago this month. Click here to watch "Expelled: the Tucker Family".