The first Israeli settlement from lands captured in 1967 was Yamit in the Sinai, according to an archival piece from The Guardian. The town was set up on the Mediterranean side of the Sinai near Rafah and was thought of at the time as a potential barrier between Egypt and Israel in the case that the Sinai would be returned. The prefabricated buildings were supposed to house 350 settler families by the spring of 1976 and expectations were that Yamit could one day house a deep sea port for Israel. Jewish families were, to say the least, recalcitrant when the handover back to Egypt took place. Israeli authorities had to resort to forced evacuations before razing the settlement.

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