This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Gan Or (Hebrew: גַּן אוֹר, lit.

On the day of its evacuation 52 families, over 320 people, lived there.

Gan Or was founded in 1980 as an Orthodox moshav by a group of former members of the Bnei Akiva Mizrahi youth group and the Hesder yeshiva program at Netzarim and moved to its current location in 1983.

[1] Prior to evacuation the community had built a synagogue and adjacent events hall.

The Tohar Girls College there, which was founded in 2000 and offered combined religious studies and academic courses at the Open University and at Bar-Ilan University's campus at nearby Ashkelon, has been relocated.