Fix release-18.0.7

[shlomi-noach]

Description

Fixing the mistake of #16740 (comment), by rewriting commit history and removing this commit:

commit 6937274d9aff8779f3af2ec1840b7f0f843d383d (HEAD -> release-18.0, upstream/release-18.0)
Author: Shlomi Noach <2607934+shlomi-noach@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 11 10:54:24 2024 +0300

    [release-18.0] Release of `v18.0.7` (#16749)

    Signed-off-by: Shlomi Noach <2607934+shlomi-noach@users.noreply.github.com>

Related Issue(s)

#16739

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