The Financial Times, Times and the online edition of the Guardian report on the apparent compromise reached yesterday between US Senators and the White House over legislation governing Congress’s role in a final nuclear deal with Iran. There is significant opposition to the nascent deal within Congress, but President Obama had threatened to veto any bill which granted Congress restrictions over an accord. Yesterday’s compromise will hand Congress a 30-day period to see and comment on a final agreement.

Meanwhile, the Independent i reports comments made by a Russian official who said that it would take Moscow at least six months to deliver advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. Russia announced that it would go ahead with the controversial deal with Tehran earlier this week, in light of the agreement over an outline to a nuclear deal. Both the Independent i and the Times note that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin yesterday to express his dismay over the arms sale.

The Independent i reports that Israel yesterday allowed 100 Palestinian doctors to drive their own vehicles from Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank into Israel. It is the first time that such movement has been permitted since the outbreak of the Second Intifada 15 years ago and Israeli authorities indicated that the arrangement could be expanded if successful. Since the start of 2015, Israel has taken several steps to ease movement and conditions for Palestinians.

In Syria, the Independent says that President Assad’s forces used chemical weapons during a March offensive in the town of Idlib. Assad had agreed to hand over his entire chemical arsenal to international inspectors, but reports have persisted that his forces have deployed crude chemical weapons.

In the Israeli media, Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Israel Hayom all lead by previewing Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day which begins this evening and concludes tomorrow evening. The central state ceremony will take place this evening at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem and will be attended by the country’s political leadership. Tomorrow morning, a siren will bring the country to a standstill for two minutes.

The top story in Haaretz, which also features prominently in Maariv is the phone conversation yesterday in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his dismay to Russia’s Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s decision to sell Iran an advanced missile system. Writing in Yediot Ahronot, military affairs commentator Alex Fishman plays down the military significance of the sale, saying that the Russian decision was “mainly a declarative measure that was made for political reasons.”

Meanwhile, in Maariv, Dana Somberg pens another report claiming that Netanyahu met secretly with Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog to discuss forming a national unity government. Although Somberg quotes a number of party officials denying that the meeting took place, she says that the two leaders discussed a scenario in which Zionist Union would receive six ministerial portfolios including the Foreign Ministry, Education Ministry and Economy and Trade Ministry.