In the summer of 2006, the village welcomed a group of families who had been evacuated from Kfar Darom, Gush Katif, as a part of Israel's disengagement from the settlements in the Gaza Strip. The group established a new settlement, and also reopened the kollel for dayanim which had operated in Kfar Darom. The Kollel is named "Or Yosef" (Light of Joseph) after Yossi Shuk, a resident of the village, who had been killed during the Palestinian uprising in December 2005.