The U.S. Funded Anti-Netanyahu NGOs (U.S. House Judiciary Committee)
    The House Judiciary Committee released a memo on Thursday detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department, and other federal agencies funded organizations in Israel opposed to Prime Minister Netanyahu, as well as terrorist groups.
    Israeli NGO Blue White Future received funds from U.S. grant recipients and funded the coalition headquarters for the anti-Netanyahu judicial reform protest.
    The U.S. provided $42,000 to Israeli NGO Movement for Quality Government to conduct "Civic Activism Training" in Israeli high schools.
    U.S. nonprofit PEF Israel Endowment Funds provided $884 million to groups involved in anti-administration protests in Israel.
    U.S. nonprofit Jewish Communal Fund (JCF) provided $42.8 million to the anti-Netanyahu protest headquarters in Israel and the protests' two main funders.
    The Committee's investigation is ongoing and is expanding to include additional American and Israeli NGOs that may be involved in funneling U.S. government funds with the purpose of undermining the Israeli government or for the support or fiscal sponsorship of terrorist groups.
    See also Text: U.S. Funding of Anti-Netanyahu NGOs (U.S. House Judiciary Committee)
    See also Congress Questions U.S. Funding to Anti-Netanyahu Protest Groups (JNS)

IDF Working to Prevent Future Invasion from Gaza - Yonah Jeremy Bob (Jerusalem Post)
    During my most recent visit inside Gaza on Thursday, I saw new IDF positions in northern Gaza designed to serve as an additional forward defense line to prevent any potential invasion from Hamas forces getting anywhere near residential Israel.
    The Israeli villages of Kfar Aza, Nahal Oz, and Sderot were easily visible from Gaza.
    I saw a dozen explosions or smoke from explosions from fighting Hamas's reconstituted forces in Beit Hanun an d from blowing up more Hamas tunnels.
    IDF sources said that nearly all of the strategic Hamas tunnels - containing weapons factories, senior officials, and intelligence and communications centers - had been destroyed, and that most tunnels being found and destroyed in Beit Hanun or Beit Lahiya these days are much smaller tactical maneuvering tunnels.
    Only about 5% of the buildings in Beit Hanun appeared to be still standing.

IDF Search and Rescue Brigade Reacts after Iran Missile Impacts - Amir Bohbot (Jerusalem Post)
    Commander of the IDF Home Front Command's Search and Rescue Brigade, Col. (res.) Yossi Pinto, told Walla about the brigade's actions during the Israel-Iran war in an inte rview published on Friday. "The brigade was designed for this moment," he said.
    Maj. A, 37, a company commander in the brigade, is a mechanical engineer in civilian life. When a ballistic missile from Iran fell in Bat Yam, he was nearby with his soldiers. "We heard the booms and understood that there's been an impact," A said.
    "I arrived at the site carrying initial rescue equipment and search tools. We ran hundreds of meters to the impact site. There was chaos at the scene, destruction, injured people."
    "We started working. Our goal is to rescue as quickly as possible. I started to climb the impact site, seeing a 10-story building, with parts of the building, about one and a half floors in height, destroyed. Ten apartments, gone."
    "There were two kids in the rubble. Later, we found an elderly woman who was dead. Dealing with the deceased is a difficult event. These are people whose home this was."
    Pinto showed a video of the rescue of a person trapped on the eighth floor of a building. He pointed out that the person who took it was an engineer standing on a building across the street with a laser beam that detects shifts in the building to assess if it is moving, with a chance of collapsing.
    Pinto noted, "When I look at the brigade, men, women, 99% of whom are reservists, I say you cannot operate a brigade like this, at this level, and with this intensity, without extreme commitment."

American-Born Soldier Saving Israeli Civilians under Iran Missile Fire - Barbara Sofer (Jerusalem Post)
    Eytan Gittler, 29, grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. After graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in hospital administration, Gittler moved to Israel and enlisted in the IDF.
    He's an operations coordinator and in charge of special projects at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem.
    He serves as a reserve soldier in a search and rescue and combat unit and was called up for the June war with Iran.
    On June 13, an Iranian ballistic missile struck the middle of a modern 42-story apartment building in Tel Aviv.
    "When the engineer gave the okay, we ran up the steps to the 10th floor, which had the most serious damage, and started helping people get out."
    "Thank God, people had listened to the Home Front Command and had remained in their reinforced safe rooms. Otherwise, so many people would have been wounded or worse. As it was, we had to help people who were badly shaken and shell-shocked."
    For two hours, his team walked the stairs up to the top of the 42-story building and then to the bottom, knocking on doors and helping residents leave their apartments.
    "Fortunately, no one needed immediate medical attention. This was a happy surprise because several floors in the middle of the building were completely wrecked, with their interiors destroyed and filled with debris."
    "I never for a moment regret my decision to move here," he says. "I can see the difference between my friends, who, like me, stayed in Israel, and my friends back in the U.S."
    "Here, we've developed Israeli resilience. I love being able to do something for Israel. My day job at Hadassah and my military service are both extremely meaningful."
    The writer is the Israel director of public relations at Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.