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The planned community would be based on yeshiva graduates and residents of nearby Eli.
By Shula Rosen
The Israeli government is advancing plans to re-establish the evacuated community of Ganim in northern Samaria this summer, alongside broader settlement activity in the area, according to a report by Ynet.
The move comes following renewed activity at Homesh and Sa-Nur, two sites that, like Ganim, were evacuated under the 2005 disengagement law.
Ganim is one of the northern Samaria communities included in those earlier evacuations.
Families expected to relocate to Ganim are largely composed of graduates of the Bnei David pre-military academy in the settlement of Eli.
Plans also call for the establishment of a branch of Bnei David institutions at the site at a later stage.
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan has visited the location twice with leaders of Bnei David as preparations move forward.
During one of those visits, Rabbi Yehuda Sadan, head of the Bnei David yeshiva in Eli, said he expected “within a few months” that a community would rise at Ganim as well as at Kadim, another of the four northern settlements evacuated under the disengagement framework.
He said the planned community would be based on yeshiva graduates and residents of Eli.
Government steps related to settlement policy have also included actions taken in 2025, when Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Israel Katz authorized 19 settlements in Judea and Samaria.
According to the provided information, many of those locations had previously been evacuated under the disengagement law.
The developments in Ganim are taking place within the context of these broader policy decisions and on-the-ground visits by regional leadership and educational figures connected to the planned community.
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