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This author was among the 3,000-5,000 people who attended the Gush Katif Remembrance event near the Kisufim checkpoint.
The event featured a number of speakers, both youth and adults who spoke about Gush Katif, interspersed with acappella negunim conveying a spirit of returning to and rebuilding Gush Katif.
This author visited with Rabbi Yigal Kamenetsky, the Rav of former Gush Katif residents as well as MK Tzvi Hendel and with a Rav who spoke 4 years ago at the Hachnasat Sefer Torah which took place on 4 July, 2004 at Shi-rat Hayam.