An Israeli legally changed his name to commemorate the former Gaza Strip settlements. Yitzhar Sharabi, a Tel Aviv student active in right-wing politics, recently had the Interior Ministry change his surname to Katif in reference to the main Gaza settlement bloc of Gush Katif, which was evacuated in August. “This way I can do a little to commemorate the settlement enterprise in Katif, which was ruined,” he told the Ma’ariv newspaper on Tuesday. To make his point, Katif posed for his identity-card photograph in an orange T-shirt, the rallying color of Israelis who tried to stop the pullout.
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