The Times, Telegraph, Independent, Guardian and Daily Mirror all cover the release yesterday of a handwritten letter penned by senior Nazi official Adolf Eichmann to then-President of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, asking for him to commute the death sentence he was handed in an Israeli court in 1962. Eichmann was an architect of the Holocaust and having disappeared to Argentina in 1950, he was seized by Israeli agents ten years later and placed on trial in Jerusalem. The trial galvanized the country and Eichmann remains the only person to be sentenced to death by Israel’s judicial system. In his letter, Eichmann claimed he was a “mere instrument” of Nazi officialdom. Coinciding with International Holocaust Memorial Day, the letter was one of several documents relating to the Eichmann trial released for the first time yesterday, having been discovered in the archives of Israel’s President’s Office.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph online says that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei yesterday released a three-minute video in which it is claimed it is “not clear” if the Holocaust is a “reality or not,” and that even if the genocide did occur, it is “not clear how it happened.” Khamenei’s clip also features Holocaust deniers such as David Irving.

The Guardian online says that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has arrived in France, having just visited Italy. He will be hosted by President Hollande and will apparently focus his trip on increasing trade with France from £5.8 billion to £28 billion. An editorial in the Times says that UK business should be “cautious” over increased activity with Iran, as “so much of the economy” in Iran is part of a “business empire” belonging to Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards and the army.

The Telegraph online includes a feature on tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors living in poverty in Israel. Although Israel’s government recently boosted subsidies for survivors, many still struggle.

Another item in the Telegraph online reports that two soldiers in the IDF’s elite Duvdevan unit have been handed prison sentences for shooting and killing a camel near the Dead Sea. The soldier who fired his pistol will serve a four-month sentence while the soldier who filmed it will be imprisoned for two months.

The Guardian online says the BBC has stated that former-Director of Television Danny Cohen’s actions were “inadvisable” when he last year signed a letter rejecting cultural boycotts of Israel. The letter was signed by arts heavyweights including JK Rowling and Melvyn Bragg.

In the Israeli media, the top item is the revelation yesterday that two women spotted Nasham Milhem, the terrorist who shot three people dead in Tel Aviv on 1 January, shortly after the attack and called police who apparently ignored their testimony. Milhem went on the run for a week, before being tracked down in northern Israel. He was killed in a shoot-out with Israeli forces. It is the top item in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom, which leads with the headline “The madness and the failure.” There is plenty of criticism of the police, including in Maariv, where Ben Caspit comments sarcastically, “I tend to think that if Milhem had gone, on his own, to the police station on Dizengoff Street [where the shooting occurred], they would have asked him to come back the next morning when it was not so busy.”

Meanwhile, Maariv, Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom both highlight a terror attack last night at a petrol station near the West Bank community of Givat Ze’ev. A 36-year-old man was stabbed and seriously wounded by a Palestinian assailant, who was chased by civilians on the scene and apprehended before security officials arrived.

Israel Radio news says that United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday emphasised that he was not justifying Palestinian terrorism in comments he made on Tuesday, but that he stood by every word. He appeared to claim that Palestinian terror was an understandable response to terrorism in his original comments, which were condemned by Israeli leaders.