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Yamit, as Israel Left It
(Jerusalem Post) Matthew Gutman - Save for a few scavengers, the bleached skeleton of the flattened Sinai settlement of Yamit remains as Israel left it 22 years ago. Now it is a hamlet of rubble, its only standing edifice, its synagogue, the one building Israel would not destroy when it left. The Egyptian government has not disturbed the remains, for in the sparsely populated Sinai Peninsula, land is cheap. In 1978, Israel had 13 settlements south of the Gaza Strip as a buffer with Egypt.