The i reports that Coca Cola has opened its first bottling plant in the Gaza Strip, which will provide 120 direct jobs and ten times that number indirectly. The article says that the plant will produce recyclable glass bottles.

The Guardian and the online edition of the Financial Times both report that Russian officials and Syrian rebel groups are holding talks in Turkey about a ceasefire and opening humanitarian corridors in eastern Aleppo, which is under assault by President Assad’s forces.

The Evening Standard says that the battle for Aleppo is “nearing an end,” but that the “war will rage on” in Syria.

The Times online suggests that Russia’s President Putin and Turkey’s President Erdogan have begun “carving up northern Syria,” with Turkey keen on creating a “buffer zone” in the area adjacent to its border.

Writing in the Times, former Justice Secretary Michael Gove says that the failure to intervene in Syria, following a parliamentary vote in 2013 meant that “we threw away any respect for western security guarantees, we failed to save the Syrian people from mass murder”. But in doing so, says Gove, “our biggest failure has been the inability to check the advance of the Iranian regime,” which he refers to as “Assad’s puppet masters” and notes how Iran refers to Israel as a “cancerous tumour”. Gove encourages the UK to help Israel and Sunni states in the region to work together against the “common enemy”.

The Times reports that Iran is accused of launching a cyber-attack on several government agencies in Saudi Arabia.

The Independent says that the Knesset has reinforced its dress code for MKs and visitors, in a message on its website. The code stipulates that certain items cannot be worn, including shorts, flip flops and mini-skirts. The article highlights that in a survey earlier this year, a surprising number of female MKs said that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted, two during their time serving in the Knesset.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot is a further revelation in what is known as the “submarine affair”,in which it is alleged that Israel’s purchase of three German submarines was influenced by the business interests of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyer. The report says that five per cent of the shares in the German company which is meant to manufacture the submarines are apparently held by the Iran Foreign Investment Company (IFIC). Yediot Ahronot says that not only would such a situation contradict Israel’s position encouraging other countries not to do business with Iran, but that “[t]he Iranian involvement also raises worrying questions regarding Iranian shareholders possibly being exposed to one of the IDF’s most classified projects”.

The main story in Haaretz, which is also covered prominently in Maariv and Yediot Ahronot is that the prime minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, was yesterday questioned for 11 hours by police over suspicions that she misspent public money on private expenses. She has previously been questioned over the allegations, but Israel Radio news says that the Jerusalem District prosecutor believes that there is enough evidence to indict her. The same report covers comment from Netanyahu’s office, which said that the investigation will come to nothing, as there is no case to answer.

Israel Radio news also reports comments made yesterday by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who told a conference that there is no alternative option to carrying out the High Court’s ruling to evacuate the West Bank outpost of Amona later this month. Mandelblit said: “As far as I’m concerned, there is no dilemma here, just the sole option of carrying out the judicial branch’s verdict.” The court ruled that the outpost was constructed illegally on private Palestinian land.