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Article: After disengagement, Moshav revitalized by Gush Katif evacuees
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- August 2, 2009
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DANIELA FELDMAN DANIELA FELDMAN
Jerusalem Post
08-02-2009
After disengagement, Moshav revitalized by Gush Katif evacuees
Byline: DANIELA FELDMAN DANIELA FELDMAN
Edition: Daily
Section: News
For half a century, Shoshana Kraus lived in a quiet, insular moshav just north of Gaza. But since August 2005, her community has been reenergized by 24 families displaced from their homes during the disengagement.
Kraus, then 13, came to Israel in 1955 after living in a ghetto in Hungary during World War II. Her father and brother died in the Holocaust, but her mother knew of Mavki'im, a moshav just south of Ashkelon founded in 1949 by Hungarian Jews, demobilized IDF soldiers who survived the ...