Yossi Dagan
Yossi Dagan is an Israeli grassroots community organizer.[1]
Biography
Yossi Dagan is the leader of Homesh First. Homesh First is a grassroots organization dedicated to resettling and rebuilding Homesh.[2] Homesh First was formed after the homes of the Jewish residents of Homesh were razed and Jewish community was evicted as part of Israel's disengagement in August 2005.[3]
Political activism
Dagan was active in actions of civil disobedience as a method of protesting the Disengagement Plan. Dagan helped to organize the 2007 Yom Ha'atzmaut march to Homesh. During Sukkot of the same year, Dagan organized a pilgrimage to Homesh. Many former residents and sympathetic Israelis camped out on the grounds where Homesh houses were demolished.[4]The Christian Science Monitor quoted Dagan as warning against the disengagement: "You'll be creating a terror state that would threaten most of the country with Qassam [missiles]."[5]
See also
References
- ^ http://www.ourjerusalem.com/news/story/two-years-after-disengagement-yeshiva-opens-in-homesh.html
- ^ Two years after disengagement yeshiva opens in Homesh
- ^ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2987468&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
- ^ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3451416,00.html]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/870283.html
- ^ [1]