The Telegraph online covers comments made by White House spokesman Josh Earnest and US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki yesterday, in which both said Israeli leaders are “cherry-picking” details of the nuclear talks between the United States and Iran, selectively leaking information so as to distort their real nature. The comments come days after US officials strenuously denied that some information on the talks was being withheld from Israel for fear that it would be used for political purposes.

The Telegraph online also includes a feature on Israeli political parties wooing immigrant voters ahead of next month’s general election, including the country’s English-speaking community. With the poll shaping up to be a tight race between Likud and Zionist Union, the article suggests that parties are attributing increasing importance to relatively small immigrant groups which could ultimately make a crucial difference and who generally have fewer historic ties to one party or another.

Meanwhile, the Independent i says that a Jordanian hip-hop group is planning to sue Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after one of its songs was used in a campaign video by Netanyahu’s Likud Party.

The Independent includes an interview with a Palestinian cartoonist who is being investigated by the Palestinian Authority (PA) under the instructions of President Mahmoud Abbas, after he penned an image of Mohammed. Although the cartoon portrayed Mohammed in a positive light, the cartoonist is still being investigated.

In the Daily Mirror, Chris Hughes continues his eyewitness reports on the Gaza Strip six months after Operation Protective Edge. He reports on the condition of a teenage boy, who has been treated by visiting British medics after he was injured playing with an unexploded shell.

The Times online includes a lengthy piece detailing how ancient religious monuments and artefacts are being routinely destroyed in Syria by often rival Islamist groups. They include not only Christian and Jewish sites but also those associated with Sufi and often Shia Islam, effectively eradicating evidence of historic religious diversity in Syria.

The Times also says that Saudi Arabia is boosting its ballistic missile capability in order to combat the threat of Iran, with Riyadh increasingly wary of Tehran’s regional ambitions.

In the Israeli media, continued fallout from the State Comptroller’s report into the expenses of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family at their residences is still a major item. With the State Comptroller having handed over material to the Attorney General due to suspicion of criminal conduct, Ben-Dror Yemini in Yediot Ahronot says that the Attorney General “has to make a decision” and that “he must fight against the norm of irresponsibility.  This can only be done by means of a thorough police investigation.”

Meanwhile, as highlighted by Maariv and Israel Hayom, in his first reaction to the report, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the media circus surrounding the report is merely a “smokescreen designed to enable Tzipi Livni to sneak into the Prime Minister’s Office,” branding the Zionist Union leader a “danger to the state.” Writing in Maariv, Ben Caspit accuses Netanyahu of “unbelievable cynicism,” having sat in government with Livni for some time and now “turning her into an enemy of the state for no reason.”

The top story in both Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom is a winter storm which is expected to begin today and bring much of the country to a standstill. Already today, schools in Jerusalem will only open during the morning and preparations are being made to ensure that citizens and services are prepared for expected heavy snow fall in some parts of the country and strong winds and rain elsewhere.