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Gan Or גַּן אוֹר | |
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| Etymology: Garden of Light | |
  Gan Or | |
| Coordinates:31°20′12″N34°15′34″E / 31.33667°N 34.25944°E /31.33667; 34.25944 | |
| Country | Israel |
| Affiliation | HaPoel HaMizrahi |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Founded by | Graduates ofBnei Akiva andhesder yeshivas |
Gan Or (Hebrew:גַּן אוֹר,lit. Garden of Light) was anIsraeli settlement located in theGush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israel'sdisengagement of 2005. On the day of its evacuation 52 families, over 320 people, lived there.
Gan Or was founded in 1980 as anOrthodoxmoshav by a group of former members of theBnei AkivaMizrahi youth group and theHesderyeshiva program atNetzarim and moved to its current location in 1983.[1] Prior to evacuation the community had built a synagogue and adjacent events hall. The Tohar Girls College there, which was founded in 2000 and offered combined religious studies and academic courses at theOpen University and atBar-Ilan University's campus at nearbyAshkelon, has been relocated.[2]
Gan Or was officially evacuated on August 18, 2005 by theIsraeli Army andIsraeli Police, though most of the residents had left earlier. A majority of the families moved to the temporary refuge ofNitzan to which several hundred evacuated families fromGush Katif were relocated.
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