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Yossi Dagan is an Israeli grassroots

Grassroots

A grassroots movement is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures...

community organizer. http://www.ourjerusalem.com/news/story/two-years-after-disengagement-yeshiva-opens-in-homesh.html

Homesh First

Yossi Dagan is the leader of Homesh First

Homesh First

Homesh First is a grassroots organization attempting to rebuild and resettle the Jewish community of Homesh.-History:Homesh First was formed after the homes of the Jewish residents of Homesh were razed and Jewish community was evicted as part of Israel's disengagement in August 2005...

. Homesh First is a grassroots organization dedicated to resettling and rebuilding Homesh

Homesh

Homesh was an Israeli settlement in the northern Samarian Hills of the West Bank along Tulkarm and Route 60. The village fell under the administrative jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council...

. http://www.ourjerusalem.com/news/story/two-years-after-disengagement-yeshiva-opens-in-homesh.html
Homesh First was formed after the homes of the Jewish residents of Homesh were razed and Jewish community was evicted as part of Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

's disengagement

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan , also known as the "Disengagement plan", "Gaza expulsion plan", and "Hitnatkut", was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from...

in August 2005. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2987468&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 The Christian Science Monitor quoted Yossi Dagan (at that time only the future leader of Homesh First) warning that by these actions, "You'll be creating a terror state that would threaten most of the country with Qassam

Qassam rocket

The Qassam rocket is a simple steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. Three models have been produced and used between 2001 and 2011....

[missiles]." http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0712/p06s01-wome.html

Sa-Nur spokesperson

Before he became the leader of Homesh First, Yossi Dagan was a resident of the former Israeli settlement

Israeli settlement

An Israeli settlement is a Jewish civilian community built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and is considered occupied territory by the international community. Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank...

of Sa-Nur

Sa-Nur

Sa-Nur was an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank under the administrative jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. Prior to its demolition, Sa-nur was home to 43 families. In September 2005 its 105 residents were evicted and IDF soldiers began dismantling Sanur as part of Israel's...

. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0712/p06s01-wome.html At Sa-Nur he was a resident of the community as well as the spokesperson for the Sa-Nur community until September 2005 when its residents were evicted and IDF

Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal , are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel...

soldiers began dismantling Sa-Nur as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

http://www.shechem.org/interact/publish/article_119.shtml He commented on the burial of Sa-Nur's synagogue

Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...

as an act of "desecration." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4263338.stm

Civil disobedience campaigns

Yossi Dagan has been very active in actions of civil disobedience

Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is commonly, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. It is one form of civil resistance...

as a method of protesting the Disengagement Plan. There are two recent events in Israel that Yossi Dagan helped to organize which have impacted the debate on the status of Homesh in Israel. The first major effort Yossi Dagan organized was the 2007 Yom Ha'atzmaut

Yom Ha'atzmaut

Yom Ha'atzmaut commemorates Israel's declaration of Independence in 1948. It is celebrated on 5 Iyar according to the Hebrew calendar. Yom Ha'atzmaut is preceded by Yom Hazikaron, the Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day.-History:...

march to Homesh. As a result thousands of Israelis marched to Homesh. During Sukkot

Sukkot

Sukkot is a Biblical holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei . It is one of the three biblically mandated festivals Shalosh regalim on which Hebrews were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.The holiday lasts seven days...

of the same year, Yossi Dagan organized a pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey or search of great moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith...

to Homesh. Many former residents and sympathetic Israelis camped out on the grounds where Homesh resident's houses were demolished. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3451416,00.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/870283.html

Homesh First

Sa-Nur spokesperson

Civil disobedience campaigns

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