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HEADLINES:
1. WATCH: SECOND HAKAFOT AT WESTERN WALL
2. DOZENS WOUNDED IN CLASHES NEAR GAZA
3. IAEA TO NETANYAHU: WE'VE CHECKED EVERYTHING WE NEEDED TO IN IRAN
4. FRANCE FREEZES IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE ASSETS
5. BAPTIZED AS A CHRISTIAN, REGISTERED AS A JEW
6. UNRWA EMPLOYEES IN GAZA FLEE TO ISRAEL
7. WHO DID THE REBBE GIVE AN OPEN CHECK TO?
8. THOUSANDS ATTEND SECOND HAKAFOT AT RABIN SQUARE


1. WATCH: SECOND HAKAFOT AT WESTERN WALL
by Yoni Kempinski

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2. DOZENS WOUNDED IN CLASHES NEAR GAZA
by Mordechai Sones

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51 Gaza Arabs were injured this evening, including 10 by live bullets and the rest from tear gas, in clashes with IDF forces near the fence in northern Gaza, the Gaza Health Ministry reported.

Meanwhile, it was reported in Gaza media that the Israeli Air Force fired at ships preparing to participate in a naval flotilla to Gaza's northern shores to lift the siege.

Four fires broke out during the day in the Gaza area as a result of incendiary balloons, including two at Kibbutz Be'eri.

On Friday, seven Arabe were reported killed and 400 injured in clashes with the army along the security fence. Some Arabs arrived at several locations along the Gaza perimeter fence.

Some of them rioted and threw grenades, explosive devices, tires, and rocks at the IDF forces.

The IDF says two aircraft carried out attacks in northern Gaza in response to grenades and explosive devices thrown at soldiers, and a number of suspects crossed the border fence in northern Gaza.


3. IAEA TO NETANYAHU: WE'VE CHECKED EVERYTHING WE NEEDED TO IN IRAN
by Tal Polon

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano addressed Netanyahu's statements last week at the UN General Assembly, where the prime minister claimed the existence of an Iranian secret atomic warehouse.

Speaking at the the UN, Netanyahu was critical of IAEA's failure to take action after his disclosure of the existence of an Iranian secret atomic archive.

"Months have passed. The IAEA has still not taken any action. It has not posed a single question to Iran. It has not demanded to inspect a single new site discovered in that secret archive.

"So, given this inaction, I decided to reveal today something else that we have shared with the IAEA and with a few intelligence agencies."

Netanyahu went on assert "that Iran has another secret facility in Tehran—a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran's secret nuclear weapons program."

"In May, we exposed the site of Iran's secret atomic archive, right here, in the Shorabad District of Tehran. Today I'm revealing the site of a second facility — Iran's secret atomic warehouse. It's right here, in the Turquzabad District of Tehran, just there, miles away," Netanyahu said, referring to a map of Tehran.

Calling Amano "a good man," Netanyahu challenged the IAEA director to "do the right thing."

"Go inspect this atomic warehouse, immediately, before the Iranians finish clearing it out," he said.

"And Mr. Amano, while you're at it, inspect the other secret sites we told you about. Once and for all, tell the world the truth about Iran," he added.

On Tuesday, Amano released a statement dismissing Netanyahu's concerns, in which he asserted that the IAEA has checked "all the sites and locations in Iran which it needed to visit," and that the IAEA "does not take any information at face value."

"The Agency uses all safeguards relevant information available to it but it does not take any information at face value. In line with established safeguards practices, all information obtained, including from third parties, is subject to rigorous review and assessed together with other available information to arrive at an independent assessment based on the Agency's own expertise," Amano said.


4. FRANCE FREEZES IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE ASSETS
by Arutz Sheva Staff

France decided Tuesday to freeze assets related to Iranian intelligence services operating in French territory, as well as the assets of two Iranian citizens, for six months.

Their assets were frozen amid a decision by a German court to back a decision to extradite to Belgium an Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement in an attempted bombing in Paris thwarted in June.

"An attempted attack in Villepinte was foiled on June 30," the French foreign and economics ministries said in a statement. "An incident of such gravity on our national territory could not go unpunished."

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron told the UN Security Council that all council members had a goal of "preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."

The freezing of Iranian assets may indicate a change in French policy towards Iran and its nuclear weapons program.


5. BAPTIZED AS A CHRISTIAN, REGISTERED AS A JEW
by Eliran Aharon

A Jewish woman from a remote village in Georgia who is married to a non-Jew and was baptized with her children into Christianity turned to the Rabbinical Court and demanded that she be identified as a Jew.

She said that she has maintained a Christian lifestyle all her life and has refused to undergo a halakhic process of returning to Judaism, as is customary for every Jew who converted to another religion and wants to return to Judaism.

The Regional Rabbinical Court rejected her request to register as a Jew so that she could immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return and decided not to allow her to undergo a ceremony of return to Judaism, as she continues to lead a Christian lifestyle and continues to live with her Christian husband.

The woman appealed to the Great Rabbinical Court, which was faced with the complex and thorny issue of defining Jewishness for a woman born to a Jewish mother, but who in practice converted to Christianity and lives with her Christian husband.

Members of the Great Rabbinical Court, the rabbinical court judges Rabbi Eliezer Igra, Rabbi Aharon Katz and Rabbi Shmuel Shapira sat for a long time on the matter and eventually published a 46-page halakhic ruling that delves into halakhic and legal history on the definition of Jewishness.

Ultimately, the Rabbinical Court decided to accept her appeal and instruct the Interior Ministry to register her as a Jew, despite the fact that the Law of Return states that it does not apply to one who has converted voluntarily and one who is of another religion.

The ruling extensively reviews the issue of intermarriage from the times of Ezra and Nehemiah and the immigrants of Babylon who arrived in Israel, to the immigrants of our time. The ruling also refers extensively to the issue of assimilation throughout history and up to the present day.

Based on dozens of halakhic authorities and sources starting from the Shulchan Aruch, through the Rishonim and Acharonim and authorities of our time, the court decided that "1. The applicant is a Jew and not a different religion. 2. The law applying to the appellant is like that applying to a baby who grew up among gentiles, and she does not need to accept mitzvot and immerse in a ritual bath. 3. Even so, we must demand that she make a commitment not to go to church and, upon her arrival in Israel, that her and her children's connections be with Jews and not with Christians. 4. Following this commitment, the court will instruct the Interior Ministry to register the applicant as a Jew, and this is her legal status."


6. UNRWA EMPLOYEES IN GAZA FLEE TO ISRAEL
by AFP

UNRWA said Monday it was temporarily withdrawing part of its foreign staff from the Gaza Strip following security concerns linked to job cuts.

It said in a statement it had "decided to temporarily withdraw part of its international staff from Gaza following a series of worrying security incidents affecting its personnel in the strip."

A source with the agency said around 10 staff members crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Monday.

The Israeli defense ministry unit that oversees the crossing said an unspecified number of foreign employees from the agency known as UNRWA "were evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Israel."

UNRWA employees in the strip have held strikes, sit-ins and other protests since the agency announced in July it was cutting more than 250 jobs in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.

Hundreds of full-time roles have also become part-time.

The cuts come as a result of US President Donald Trump's decision to cancel all aid to the agency.

The UNRWA source said a protest was held Monday outside a Gaza City hotel where agency officials were meeting.

The agency's statement said that "earlier today, a number of staff were harassed and prevented from carrying out their duties."

"Some of these actions have specifically targeted the UNRWA management in Gaza," it said.

It called on the authorities in the enclave run by terror group Hamas "to respond to its repeated demands to provide effective protection to its employees and facilities."

The United States has traditionally been UNRWA's largest contributor, providing around $350 million (300 million euros) a year, but Trump has cancelled all support.

Around 13,000 people work for UNRWA in Gaza. The agency also says more than 200,000 Palestinian Arabs attend its schools in the Gaza Strip.

Despite the removal of part of its foreign staff, UNRWA operations were continuing in Gaza, the agency said.

Its director of operations and other international staff were remaining in Gaza, UNRWA said.


7. WHO DID THE REBBE GIVE AN OPEN CHECK TO?
by Eli Zalmanovich

Dr. Moshe Rothschild, a Jewish physician who immigrated from Switzerland to Israel and settled in Bnei Brak, was called "the doctor of Bnei Brak".

Despite having a large family with 17 children, he managed to see and treat alone dozens of children and adults every day, including Shabbat and holidays.

When he had to go to a patient's house, he would not hesitate and would walk from one end of the city to the other, with his children holding a bag with tools and medicines when he avoided violating Shabbat unnecessarily.

He then decided to set up a medical center that would serve the city's residents in Bnei Brak. He purchased land that was intended for an urban pool, even though his friends and acquaintances warned him that he had put his money on the line and the city engineer sent him an explicit warning letter ... He did not deviate from his course and gradually raised the funds for the establishment of the medical center which was then called by every hospital in the area.

During one of his travels, he came to the Lubavitcher Rebbe for a meeting at his New York school and told him about his vision. The Rebbe placed an open signed check in his hand and told him to write down whatever amount he decided. Dr. Rothschild wrote a thousand dollars, and the Rebbe asked them to call it a medical center, and the doctor promised to do so.

Today, there is a whole campus called Kiryat Ma'ayanei HaYeshua, where two large medical institutions, one for the body and the other for the soul, operate.

Today, there is a whole campus called Kiryat Ma'ayanei HaYeshua, where two large medical institutions, one for the body and the other for the mind, operate. A sign which reads 'Beit Rofeh' (medical center) can be seen at the facility.

Dr. Rothschild explained that medical facilities are supposed to treat and make the patients healthy, and therefore he called his project a medical center.

This move proved to be a trend-setter and today many medical institutions in Israel and abroad have changed the perception that they are medical centers and not hospitals.


8. THOUSANDS ATTEND SECOND HAKAFOT AT RABIN SQUARE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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