- Yossi Dagan
Yossi Dagan is an
Israeli grassroots 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 is a grassroots organization dedicated to resettling and rebuidingHomesh . [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 ofIsrael 's disengagement in August 2005. [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2987468&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312] TheChristian 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 [missiles] ." [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0712/p06s01-wome.html]a-Nur spokesperson
Before he became the leader of Homesh First, Yossi Dagan was a resident of the former
Israeli settlement ofSa-Nur . [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0712/p06s01-wome.html] At Sa-Nur he was a resident of the community as well as thespokesperson for the Sa-Nur community until September 2005 when its residents were evicted and IDF soldiers began dismantling Sa-Nur as part ofIsrael's unilateral disengagement plan [http://www.shechem.org/interact/publish/article_119.shtml] He commented on the burial of Sa-Nur'ssynagogue 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 as a method of protesting theDisengagement 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 2007Yom Ha'atzmaut march to Homesh. As a result thousands ofIsraelis marched to Homesh. DuringSukkot of the same year, Yossi Dagan organized apilgrimage 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]ee also
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Evacuation (Israeli politics)
*Hafrada
*Aryeh Eldad
*David Wilder (Hebron Spokesman)
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