The Independent and Independent i both report that Israel’s government is mulling the possible expulsion of the families of terrorists to the Gaza Strip. The policy, which is reportedly under discussion and would require the approval of the government’s legal advisor, would apply only to families who helped plan or knew of a terror attack. The idea is one of several measures that Israel’s government is considering in order to curb the wave of violence, which has seen 21 Israelis killed since the start of October. The same reports note comments made by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday during a meeting in Jerusalem, that Israel has an obligation to defend itself against terror.

The Daily Mirror says that the Labour Party National Executive has decided it will no longer use the services of security company G4S at the party’s annual conference, due to the company’s ongoing contracts with Israel’s prisons service, including facilities in the West Bank. Joan Ryan MP, Chair of Labour Friends of Israel is quoted saying that the decision contradicts party policy which opposes boycotts.

The Guardian online includes a preview of a documentary called “Forever Pure,” which looks at the racist element of supporters at Beitar Jerusalem football club, especially in the wake of the club signing two Muslim Chechen players in 2013.

The online editions of the Guardian and Financial Times both cover two bomb blasts at a hotel in the northern Sinai town of el-Arish, where election judges had been staying. The blasts killed five people and are thought to be the latest terror attack carried out by Sinai Islamists, who are waging a campaign against the Egyptian authorities and have on occasion attacked Israel too.

The Independent, Financial Times, Telegraph and Times all cover Turkey’s downing yesterday of a Russian jet which then crashed in Syria. Turkey claims that the plane violated its airspace, but as the Times emphasises, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is furious over the incident. Meanwhile, the Guardian underscores calls for calm by NATO and the United Nations.

In the Times, Roger Boyes sets out a four-part plan for the West to tackle Syria, including the fusion of diplomatic and military action, plus a change in narrative from talk of conquest to one of liberation. However, in the Independent, Paul Rogers of Bradford University warns that the West should prepare for a 30-year Middle East war unless it alters direction.

In the Israeli media, Haaretz leads with the regional significance of Turkey yesterday shooting down a Russian warplane over Syria, which it alleges violated Turkish air space. Yediot Ahronot’s military correspondent Alex Fishman comments on the incident and says that although Israel is coordinating air activity with Russia so as to avoid any conflict, that Israel “must not entertain illusions: As soon as Israeli aerial activity conflicts with any Russian interest or with the Russian war plan—‎this agreement will be completely worthless.”

However, the main item which is the front page headline in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Israel Hayom is the behaviour of two Knesset members, Likud’s Oren Hazan and Jewish Home’s Yinon Magal, and calls for them to be seriously reprimanded. Hazan is accused of having mocked the disability of Yesh Atid’s wheelchair-bound MK Karin Elharar, who suffers from muscular dystrophy. Meanwhile, Magal has been accused by a former-colleague at the Walla news site of sexual harassment. Israel Radio news says that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett have both spoken to the respective MKs about the controversies and made their feelings known. However, Yediot Ahronot’s Sima Kadmon reflects a sense of outrage saying, “What do we expect of the society in which we live, if this is the face of its leaders.”

Meanwhile, Israel Radio news says that a car veered towards an army checkpoint north of Jerusalem this morning, in what may have been an attempted vehicle attack.