Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian people and head of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 till his death. In November 2004 the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, underwent health deterioration and was taken to a hospital in Paris. After long days there in a state of clinical death, Arafat’s death was officially announced on 11 November 2004. The funeral ceremony was held in Cairo and immediately thereafter he was brought to Ramallah for burial in the Mukata compound on 12 November. In the picture—a woman laments the death of Arafat.

Highway 6 attracted many opponents, from the Green groups who tried to prevent the paving of the highway in nature-reserve areas to ultra-Orthodox Jews who claimed the construction of the road was desecrating graves in certain places.

In the picture—extreme right-wing demonstrators clash with policemen and guards in a protest against grave desecration during the construction of Highway 6 next to Kibbutz Regavim north of Wadi Ara.

Haidar Daka, a 29-year-old resident of Jaffa, was murdered by gunfire in Jaffa. In the past he was a business partner of underworld kingpin Zeev Rosenstein and considered his right-hand man. There were several previous attempts on Daka’s life. In the picture—policemen arrest suspects immediately after the murder.

Kfar Darom was evacuated of its residents on 18 August 2005 and its houses were destroyed later. Residents of Kfar Darom fervently opposed the disengagement plan. About 250 people fortified themselves on the roof of the settlement’s synagogue. The evacuation of the synagogue involved violent clashes between the settlers and the police and IDF forces that had to disperse the protesters with water hoses. In the picture young people who opposed the disengagement are fortified on the roof of the Kfar Darom synagogue and are trying to prevent, with the help of iron rods, the landing on the roof of a shipping container full of evacuation forces.

Kfar Darom was evacuated of its residents on 18 August 2005 and its houses were destroyed later. Residents of Kfar Darom fervently opposed the disengagement plan. About 250 people fortified themselves on the roof of the settlement’s synagogue. The evacuation of the synagogue involved violent clashes between the settlers and the police and IDF forces.

The Ganei Tal moshav (cooperative settlement) was established in 1979 as a workers’ moshav. On 17 August 2005 as part of the disengagement plan that was approved in February that year, the settlement with its 85 families was evacuated. Some of the evacuees went to live in Chefetz Chaim and some in Yad Binyamin.
In the picture—a lone evacuee in tears at her new house in Chafetz Chaim that August.