The Daily Mail reports comments by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi yesterday during his address to the United Nations General Assembly. Al-Sisi urged Palestinians to unite and “be ready to coexist” in peace with Israelis.

The Guardian, Daily Mail and the Times all report that Israel shot down a drone that took off from an airfield near Damascus. The drone was destroyed by a Patriot missile fired from a battery near the town of Safed. Israel said the drone was an “Iranian-supplied Hezbollah drone”.

BBC Sport Online reports that the Italian cycle race, the Giro d’Italia, will start in Israel. Israel will become the first non-European country to host a leg of a Grand Tour bike race.

BBC News Online reports that Iraqi forces have launched an operation to recapture the last ISIS stronghold in the country’s western desert. An Iraqi military source said that the assault on Ana and its surrounding district will be supported by US-led coalition air strikes and military advisers on the ground.

The Times reports on the public  meeting between Egyptian President al-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN on Monday. The paper reports that the meeting “underscores American-backed efforts to resume peace talks and unite Arab states and Israel against a common Iranian threat”.

All of the Israeli media focus on the speech by Netanyahu at the UN. Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Israel Hayom all headline with Netanyahu telling the Iranian people that they are not Israel’s enemy. Nahum Barnea wrote in Yediot Ahronoth that the speech contained “unbridled boasting about the country’s strength and his own trips throughout the world, and a call for help against Iran and against the wickedness of the UN institutions. It also had flattery: Netanyahu is very good at flattering Trump”.

Both Yedioth Ahronoth and Maariv feature new opinion polls . In Yedioth, Likud leads with 24 seats, followed by the Zionist Union with 22, Yesh Atid with 18, Jewish Home and the Joint List with 12, and Kulanu with nine. The Maariv poll has the Likud leading by a sizeable margin, with 29 seats, trailed by Yesh Atid (21), the Zionist Union (16), the Jewish Home and the Joint List with 12, and UTJ and Kulanu with eight.

Kan Radio reports comments by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot in an interview with the Walla and Ynet websites. Eisenkot said that if necessary, Israel would put soldiers at risk in order to bring back the bodies of IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, currently being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Maariv, Haaretz, and Kan Radio report that the movie Foxtrot – which tells the story of a Tel Aviv couple and their son’s military service at an isolated checkpoint – was awarded best picture at the Ophir Awards and will be Israel’s candidate at the Oscars. Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev, who was not invited to the ceremony, commented that she was “ashamed that the Israel Academy of Film and Television presented a movie that chose to lie about the IDF as its most glorious work and an Oscar candidate”. In a speech broadcast live on her Facebook page, Regev said that “unfortunately, the party that the makers of the film Foxtrot chose to trash is the greatest celebration of the 20th century, and it is called the State of Israel”.

Haaretz report on accusations that Netanyahu attempted to help Arnon Milchan purchase part of Channel Two while receiving benefits from him. Milchan is at the centre of the gifts affair, also known as Case 1,000.

Maariv reports on a letter signed by seven Jewish senators protesting the suspension of the Western Wall arrangement and the conversion bill. In light of the international challenges facing Israel, they called on Netanyahu not to alienate committed Zionists in American Jewry. Yesterday, the Government notified the High Court of Justice that the Prime Minister had decided not to hold another Cabinet meeting in order to discuss the suspension of the Western Wall arrangement. Speaking to reporters in the US on Monday, Netanyahu said that the Reform and Conservative movements had tried to receive recognition “via the backdoor… under the pretext of a technical clause of joint administration of the Western Wall”.