The Independent i this morning reports that a British Rabbi was removed as a patron of an interfaith charity. FaithMatters removed Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet due to tweets he had written in the past about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which some people found offensive.

Israeli papers including Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Israel Hayom, Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post report that two candidates for the General Election were disqualified. The Joint Arab List’s Haneen Zoabi and Yahad’s Baruch Marzel both had their candidacies invalidated by the Central Elections Committee. Israel Hayom notes in its headline “Disqualified – to the Supreme Court” that the two candidates are likely to be reinstated by the court before the election.

Haaretz, Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Israel Hayom and the Jerusalem Post also cover reports ISIS is holding a prisoner from East Jerusalem, claiming he is a Mossad spy. 19-year-old Said Ismail Musallam’s family deny that he was a spy and say he joined ISIS for ideological reasons.

A Yediot Ahronot story quotes the Jewish Home Party saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to “eliminate” them in order to form a left-wing government after the election. A party spokesman told the newspaper that Mr Netanyahu’s efforts had reduced the size of the ‘right bloc’ in the polls. In recent polls, Jewish Home has plummeted from 16-17 seats to 11-12.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Syrian rebels are calling on Israel to help them, according to Mendi Safadi, an Israeli Druze in contact with the opposition interviewed in the Post. As the Assad regime and Hezbollah make gains along the border area with Israel. Safadi said that support for the Western-aligned Free Syrian Army could help turn the tide of battle, by hitting Hezbollah and regime targets ahead of FSA moves.

Author David Grossman has ruled himself out of the prestigious Israel Prize, Haaretz reports, amid the growing criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu’s disqualification of two members of the prize committee. Haaretz claims that across all of the prize committees, all the judges bar two have resigned.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon ordered that the new Palestinian West Bank town of Rawabi be connected to the water grid. In doing so, Yaalon was technically overruling the Joint Water Committee, which is responsible for allocating water in the West Bank, but according to Infrastructure Minister Silvan Shalom the Palestinian Authority has refused to convene the committee since 2010.