Sitting between Vice Premier Shimon Peres, right, Cabinet Secretary Israel Maimon, second right, Vice Premier Ehud Olmert, fifth right and Education Minister Limor Livnat, fourth right, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, third right, heads a Cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office Monday Aug. 15, 2005. Israel's Cabinet met Monday and gave final approval for the removal of additional Gaza settlements in what was seen as a formality. The plan was already approved by the government and parliament during a bruising yearlong political battle. With some 50,000 security forces involved, the pullout from Gaza is the nation's largest-ever noncombat operation.(AP Photo/Guy Assiag)