The Independent, Metro and the Telegraph online all cover yesterday’s latest terror attacks, which saw one Israeli killed and several injured. An 18-year-old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death at a petrol station between Jerusalem and Modi’in by an 18-year-old Palestinian. Meanwhile, two teenage Palestinian girls used scissors to stab an elderly man in Jerusalem, who turned out to be Palestinian himself. Security guards opened fire, killing one of the assailants and lightly wounding another guard in the crossfire. The Telegraph online notes that yesterday’s violence comes on the eve of a visit today by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is set to discuss regional issues and ways to reduce tension.

The Independent i and the online edition of the Guardian both report that Egyptian border forces shot dead five Sudanese migrants attempting to cross the Sinai border into Israel. The Egyptian army says that warning shots were fired. During the past decade tens of thousands of African migrants have journeyed via Sinai to reach Israel, with most now living in south Tel Aviv.

The Telegraph online reports that cash-strapped Hamas is offering around 250 acres of land which was formerly part of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip prior to Israel’s 2005 withdrawal, as payment in lieu for around 45,000 Hamas civil servants. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has refused to pay these civil servants, who work under the authority of Hamas, ever since a reconciliation deal was agreed between Hamas and the Fatah faction of PA President Mahmoud Abbas last year.

Writing in the Telegraph’s business section, Matthew Lyn notes that Israel is now the world’s seventh largest defence exporter, thanks largely to a focus on technology and combatting terror. He suggests that the UK follow suit in order to remain an industry leader.

Both the Independent and the online edition of the Guardian say that Prime Minister David Cameron is preparing for a Commons vote on bombing ISIS in Syria as early as next week.

In the Israeli media, Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Israel Hayom all lead with yesterday’s terror attacks. Maariv in particular notes that the 18-year-old soldier killed yesterday, Ziv Mizrahi, was the nephew of a security guard killed in a suicide bomb at a Jerusalem café twelve years ago, whose attempt to tackle the bomber prevented further killing.

Meanwhile, commentators reflect a sense of impotence in tackling the current violence. Writing in Yediot Ahronot, Sima Kadmon says, “It is now routine.  The question is not whether there will be a terror attack today, but how many and where … The Netanyahu-Yaalon-Bennett government does not have a security response. Period.” Former-Likud minister Gideon Saar also writes in Yediot Ahronot, suggesting “We should seriously consider a return to an effective deterrent that was employed in the past and was abandoned: expulsion” of the families of terrorists.

Haaretz notes that US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Israel today for talks with both Israeli and Palestinian leaders. The article suggests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will continue a conversation he began with Kerry two weeks ago in Washington, in which he suggested that he might introduce measures to boost Palestinian rule in return for American support for construction in major West Bank settlement blocs, such as Ariel and Ma’aleh Adumim.

Israel Radio news reports that the Knesset last night passed second and third readings of a bill which amends a current law mandating greater ultra-Orthodox military enlistment. The new law will essentially roll back measures which had been introduced to facilitate such a process.