August 25, 2005
Anti-withdrawal rabbis have raised an uproar in Israel with a plan to establish a Yad Vashem-style memorial to the Gaza Strip withdrawal. Rabbis David Druckman and Shalom Wolpa said on Wednesday that their museum – bearing the same name as the famed Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem – would be a testament to the “crime” of the evacuation of 9,000 settlers from Gaza and the northern West Bank. Yad Vashem denounced the plan as “outrageous,” as did Yosef Lapid, a Holocaust survivor who heads the secular Shinui Party. It was not clear when the settler memorial is to be inaugurated or who will fund its construction.
