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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied National Missions Minister Orit Strock’s request to hold Elul prayers inside the Gaza Strip.
- The request was submitted two weeks after a security cabinet meeting concluded.
- It arrived as a letter signed by twenty prominent religious-Zionist rabbis.
- Strock announced the denial at a prayer event on August 21, 2026 at Kissufim Tower.
- The event marked the 21st anniversary of the Gush Katif synagogue burnings.
