Chapter Thirteen |The Destruc�on of Gush Ka�f 7 8 5 6 3 4 2 1 184 185 The Tzfira family, who lost their son in a terrorist a�ack, barricaded themselves in their house in Bedolah un�l they were assured that the orchard they had planted in memory of their son would be moved to the place where they would live. An extraordinary event took place at Mo� Shomron's from Neve Dekalim. Imad Fares, a Druze from the village of Hurfeish who commanded the evacua�on in Neve Dekalim, gave Mo� his address in Hurfeish and invited him to stay in his house. "We do not deserve to live there. It is yours," he said to the shocked family.53 At Eliezer Auerbach's from Neve Dekalim, they prepared for a siege and even barricaded themselves indoors with barbed wire fences, a generator, and a water tank and drove away the soldiers who approached their door. Once realizing they would not fight, they packed a suitcase for each child, performed the mourning ritual of ren�ng their garments ('Kri'aa'), burst into tears, and the children went up on the roof in the hope that they would not be evacuated from there.54 The Tobi family from Ganei Tal went through complex and moving hours, as one of the soldiers who came to evacuate them was their son's best friend, Ezer, who was sent on this mission as part of his Pilot's training. The joyous hugs, the sounds of cries and sobs and the harsh words that were said were widely heard.55 All four genera�ons of the Zweig family from Ganei Tal le� Gush Ka�f together. Its first genera�on - the Gross family from Neve Dekalim - already underwent a similar deporta�on 65 years earlier, on European soil, but in their words, "there, those who removed us from our homes were Gen�les."56 Efrat Zimmerman from Ka�f said that at the moment of par�ng, she went outside, lay down on the ground and wallowed in the dirt while thanking God for the beau�ful years there and asking Him what else she should do. Then, she passed out.57 Chaya Demari from Gan Or hurried to get her children back from her grandmother's to experience this together so there would be no disconnec�on in the family. On their way out, as they were singing the na�onal anthem ('HaTikva') and carrying the state's flags, she cried out to God: "I built that house, now I'm wai�ng for yours!"58 The Goren family from Dugit le� the se�lement two weeks before the evacua�on date, to evacuate in a dignified manner, and so that their children would not experience trauma. Only the father of the family stayed un�l the end, and destroyed the house himself.59 Yehuda Bashari from Netzer Hazani parted with the people, the house and the se�lement, but also from the square in Netzer-Ka�f, the first square in Gush Ka�f that he established in his posi�on as the Council's Engineer, and of which he was proud.60 The Tashendi family from Neve Dekalim did not rest during the en�re period before the evacua�on. Their house was full of illegal guests who came to provide help and support, and everyone acted in every possible way to prevent the decree from being executed. Ephraim, the father of the family and second genera�on of Holocaust survivors was unable to calm down at the sight of Jewish soldiers entering his house and giving the family only half an hour to get organized and leave. 1 The synagogue in Netzarim on the morning of the evacua�on 2 Doron Ben Shlomi and his children are being evacuated from Tel Ka�fa 3 Burning and figh�ng in a Neve Dekalim 4 Sand as a souvenir from Gush Ka�f 5 On the roof of the house on the day of evacua�on 6 Shlomo Yulis arguing with a soldier 7 Hanan Porat during a conversa�on in the last hours of the synagogue in Neve Dekalim 8 The door of Eran Sternberg's house painted in the colors of the na�onal flag
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