A Jewish community existed in Gaza until 1929.
One of the cantors who served in Gaza was a native of Safed and rabbi of the city, Rabbi Israel Najara, whose poem "Yahweh Rabbon Olam and Alami" is sung throughout the Jewish diaspora.
The Jewish community in Gaza was visited by Rabbi Chaim Yosef Azoulay - the Hida on his way to Egypt. In his book, he says that on Shabbat Parashat Zachor he was in Gaza.
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The cantor and Jewish music researcher Prof. Avraham Zvi Idelson worked in Gaza, and as part of his service in the Ottoman army, he established an orchestra in Gaza.
The one who worked to renew the Jewish community was the cantor Dr. Avraham Amira, one of the founders of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv. Dr. Amira was the chairman of the cantor organization in the Land of Israel, and at the same time the chairman of the Association of Second-Hand Doctors in the Land. He established a dental clinic in Gaza and helped the Jewish community there, which experienced ups and downs.
During the events of 1919, the English evacuated the Jewish community.
In 1956, during Operation Kadesh, Gaza was captured by the IDF.
Cantor Chaim Adler - Ye Rabbon, to the tune of the Radomsk Hasidism:
The then President of the State, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, wrote to his son Amram that Gaza Reconquest Day should be a national holiday. The words appear in the book Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, published by the State Archives.
Israel was forced to withdraw, and the IDF returned to Gaza during the Six-Day War.
In the Gaza Strip, flourishing communities were established that were uprooted by the Sharon government, and this was the first time that synagogues and cemeteries were destroyed by Jews.
The Arabs tried to obscure the traces of the Jewish settlement in Gaza that existed until 1929.
David playing the harp in the mosaic of the ancient synagogue in Gaza | Wikipedia
