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The IDF says it has carried out a series of operations in the Gaza Strip over the past day, resulting in the deaths of over 30 gunmen and the destruction of terror infrastructure. In the southern Gaza city of Rafah, IDF troops killed more than 30 gunmen and located tunnel shafts and weapons. Meanwhile, in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, troops killed dozens of Hamas operatives involved in anti-tank attacks and rocket fire on Israel. The IDF also destroyed sites belonging to terror groups in Shejaiya. In addition, airstrikes were carried out against two primed rocket launchers in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is releasing a new memoir at a particularly fraught moment, both for herself and for the Democratic Party. Set to release Tuesday amid the frenzy over President Joe Biden’s recent debate performance, “True Gretch” won’t do much to dispel questions about her national ambitions. But in a pre-launch interview with The Associated Press, Whitmer did what she could to shut down such speculation, saying bluntly that she would not step into the election if Biden were to step down. “It’s a distraction more than anything,” said Whitmer.

New Popular Front (NPF), a coalition of left-wing parties formed a month ago to block the rise of the French right, won the most seats in the French parliament in the second round of national elections on Sunday.
While the hastily cobbled-together coalition, with help from French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists, succeeded in reversing last week’s first-round results, in which the right’s National Rally (NR) finished first, observers say it consigns France to political deadlock.
None of the three electoral groups emerged with anything approaching a clear majority in the National Assembly. NPF took 182 seats, Macron’s Ensemble coalition 163 seats and NR 143 seats.
To form a stable government, a party needs an absolute majority of 289 seats.

“The makom tefillah to bring about yeshuos” QUEENS, NY – Feverish preparations are underway at the old Montefiore Beis Hachaim, the site of the ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, zy”a, in advance of the yahrtzeit, this Tuesday, July 9.  The ohel and nearby visitor’s center are a hub of activity every day, open to the public 24/7, yet it is a massive undertaking to prepare the site for the auspicious day of 3 Tammuz, when Yidden are expected to visit, en-masse. All year, Yidden of all stripes come to daven and merit the yeshuos they are waiting for in the zechus of the Rebbe, and on the yahrtzeit, they come in droves.

A group of Baltimore teachers is asking voters to approve a program that would give $1,000 to new parents in the hopes of reducing childhood poverty starting from birth. The “baby bonus” will appear on the ballot for city residents in November, after supporters secured the necessary 10,000 signatures to bring the question to voters. Their recent campaign relied on extensive canvassing efforts and a cute logo: a flying cartoon stork with a bag of money in its beak. The proposal is loosely modeled on a program implemented this year in Flint, Michigan, where women receive $1,500 during mid-pregnancy and $500 per month for the first year after giving birth. Officials said the Flint program was the first of its kind in the U.S.

Two Israeli citizens from the northern Arab town of Ar’ara were indicted on Monday on charges of attempting to join the Islamic State terrorist organization in Syria, the State Attorney’s Office announced.
Abdel Mahdi Gabarin and Naim Gabarin were arrested last month at Ben-Gurion Airport as they tried to board a flight to Turkey, from where they had planned to cross into Syria, according to the charges.
Prosecutors said the suspects met following prayers at a mosque in the city of Umm al-Fahm, near Ar’ara, where Abdel Mahdi served as an imam.

Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, head of the IDF Central Command, which includes Yehuda and Shomron, concluded his 37-year military career on Monday, handing the reins to Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth.
Fox, 55, informed IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi in April that he planned to return to civilian life. He attributed the decision to fatigue and the sense that he had nothing more to contribute to Israel’s defense.
Fox was set to formally hand over control to Bluth during a ceremony on Monday evening at the Central Command headquarters in the northern Yerushalayim neighborhood of Neve Ya’akov. Right-wing coalition lawmakers, as well as representatives of Jewish communities in Yehuda and Shomron, were expected to boycott the event.