• Biblical period – Land of Gerar. Our ancestors Abraham and Isaac-the quarrel about the wells.

• 145 BC -1906 – The Hasmonean period. Yonatan HaMaccabi conquered Gaza, his brother Shimon settled Jews there.

• The Mishnah period

• The Talmudic period – Roman Byzantine. Testimony of a Jewish synagogue in Gaza.

• The Crusader period – Eliezer ben Yitzchak, from Kfar Darom.

• 569 BC – Deportation of Gaza Jews

• Mamluk period – Evidence of Jewish presence in Gaza

• The period of the Rama – Jews in Gaza during the 1st Muslim occupation. 60 homeowners in the Jewish neighborhood, wine industry.

• 1492 some deportees from Spain arrive in Gaza. Rabbi Yisrael Najara- Rabbi of Gaza. Shabbtai Zvi period

• 1870 The period of the first aliyah. Return of Jews to Gaza. It is known of about 30 religious families in Gaza

• 1908 Hacham Elkayam (Elkayam the sage) . Establishment of the first Hebrew school in Gaza/ Establishment of a bank in Gaza.

• 1915 World War 1. Deportation of Gaza Jews.

• 1919 – Establishment of the British Mandate and renewal of Jewish settlement in Gaza. Renewal of school.

• 1929 – Following the Arab riots, Jews are forced out of Gaza.

• 1946 – Establishment of Kfar Darom as part of the Operation 11 Points in the Negev

• 1948 – Evacuation of Kfar Darom during the War of Independence.

• 1967 – Occupation of Gaza during the Six Day War.

• 1970 – The Golda Meir government decides to establish Netzarim and Kfar Darom.

• 1975 – Kfar Darom was nationalized by the Rabin government and served as a transit camp for the first settlers of Gush Katif.

• 1977 – Establishment of Netzer Hazani ,the first settlement in Gush Katif.

• 1977- 2005 Establishment of 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip

• 2005 – Uprooting of the Gush Katif residents as part of the disengagement plan devised by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.