Kissufim

31.37416666666734.399444444444Koordinaten: 31 ° 22 ' N, 34 ° 24' O

Kissufim (Hebrew כִּסּוּפִים ) is the name of an Israeli kibbutz in 1950 in the Eshkol Regional Council, a few kilometers from the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. In 2005, he counted a population of 90 people.

Economically sets the kibbutz on milk production, a chicken farm, lemon and avocado gardens and the leasing of land to the Israeli army. Previously, the kibbutz had a factory that produced plastic frames for eyeglasses.

The Kissufim junction was named after this kibbutz and was the main border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli settlers of the Gush Katif. It was closed for the incoming Israeli traffic on 15 August 2005 as part of the Abkoppelungsplans. The last Israeli soldier left the Gaza Strip through this transition and closed the gate on the morning of September 12, 2005, thus ending the complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. ; which also meant the end of 38 years of occupation.