Anti-withdrawal rabbis have raised an uproar in Israel with a plan to established a Yad Vashem-style memorial to the Gaza Strip withdrawal. Rabbis David Druckman and Shalom Wolpa said 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.
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