The Times reports that troops have raided shops and the offices of the official Palestinian news agency in the West Bank city of Ramallah in a manhunt for the gunmen who shot seven Israelis. Workers at the Wafa agency said that the troops confiscated security-camera footage. A 30-week pregnant woman was among those wounded in the drive-by shooting at a bus stop near the Ofra settlement in the occupied West Bank. Doctors in Jerusalem who carried out a caesarean section said that the mother, 21, was stable but the baby was at risk of dying. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli PM, said the attack was monstrous.

The Financial Times reports that Israel’s tech expansion is stoking glaring inequality in Tel Aviv. The city’s quest to rival Silicon Valley has exacerbated the kind of social ills that have become contentious in San Francisco: income inequality and growing discontent over the exclusion of working class citizens from the economic gains. Assaf Harel, a television journalist who won a seat on Tel Aviv’s city council last month with the campaign slogan “Not a City of Towers”, said the tech sector was picking at the fabric of society. Israel’s tech sector has become an anchor for its steadily growing economy, doubling its share of gross domestic product from about 6 per cent in 1995 to about 12 per cent today. Half of the country’s exports by value are now classified as high tech goods and services, according to OECD data. However, Tech growth has exacerbated existing social inequalities. Some 15 per cent of the workforce is below the poverty line, including many ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs. While the average national wage is about $2,800 a month, average earnings in software research are almost $10,000, according to central bank data.

The Guardian and the Independent report that at the Yemen Peace talks in Sweden, the UN has proposed the flashpoint Yemeni port city of Hodeidah should be brought under the joint UN-supervised control of Houthi rebel fighters and the UN-backed government led by Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Guardian reports that Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen, described Hodeidah as the centre of gravity for the war. He said at a press conference in Rimbo – where the talks were in their fifth day – that he hoped to publish “detailed, ambitious and tangible” confidence-building proposals in the next few days, including plans for the future administration of Hodeidah and its port. Griffiths said he hoped the talks would agree a package which included an end to the Saudi air blockade of Sana’a airport. He would like to see the capital’s airport opened to international flights, humanitarian access in Hodeidah and Yemen’s third city, Taiz, a mass prisoner release programme, and economic reforms designed to shore up the Yemeni currency.

Reuters reports that on Monday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli airliners would be able to overfly Sudan en route to South America, part of Israel’s drive to improve ties with Muslim countries and isolate arch-foe Iran. Last month, Netanyahu and Chadian President Idriss Deby renewed relations severed by N’Djamena in 1972. Netanyahu told a briefing of diplomats his talks with Deby had helped open up a new air corridor to South America. “At this time, we can overfly Egypt. We can overfly Chad, that has already been set. And to all appearances, we can also overfly this corner of Sudan,” he said, pointing to a map. Netanyahu spokesmen did not elaborate and it was unclear when Israeli flights might be able to start overflying Sudan en route to South America, which the prime minister described as Israel’s fourth-most important air-travel destination.

The Times reports that, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Britain has been overtaken by Russia as the world’s second largest arms producer after the US. Sales by British defence companies, which had been in second place for worldwide arms deals since 2002, rose 2.3 per cent to $35.7 billion (£28.3 billion) last year. However, they fell behind their Russian rivals, whose sales increased by 8.5 per cent to $37.7 billion, benefiting from their ability to “showcase” weapons systems in Syria. President Putin has hailed Russia’s military campaign in Syria as a “priceless” opportunity to test new weaponry, including missile systems. “When we started to use these modern weapons, including missiles, whole teams from our defence industry companies went to Syria and worked there on-site,” he said in June.

The Daily Mail reports that a Qatari envoy is being quoted as saying that Israel has rejected a proposal to open an air link between the blockaded Gaza Strip and Doha. Mohammed al-Emadi, who coordinates Qatari humanitarian projects in the Hamas-controlled territory, told the Palestinian news agency SAWA that Qatar offered to handle security over the airway to address Israeli concerns. Instead, he says Israel offered an airport in areas under its control, and that his country will review the proposal. The interview was published on Monday. Israel and Egypt imposed an air, land and sea blockade of Gaza after the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power in 2007.

The Independent reports that according to a study by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the biggest survey of Jewish people ever conducted, more than a third of European Jews have considered emigrating over the past five years because they no longer feel safe. The survey of 16,395 people across 12 EU member states reveals that antisemitism has become “disturbingly normalised” amid a surge in reports of hate crimes. Nine out of 10 said they believed the problem had got worse in recent years and 71 per cent said they had tried to protect themselves by hiding items that identified them as Jews. However, 79 per cent of those who experienced harassment said they did not report the incidents to the authorities.

The Telegraph reports that Iran has arrested more than 100 Christians in the last week, according to charities, amid a growing crackdown by the Islamic Republic. Many of the 114 detained were converts to Christianity from a Muslim background, accused of “proselytising”. They had to report the history of their Christian activities and were told to cut contact with any Christian groups, according to Open Doors UK, a charity which speaks out on persecution against Christians.

The Times reports that a tape recording of the final minutes of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s life captured his suffocation and his last words as he repeated three times: “I can’t breathe.” The audio has now been translated and transcripts supplied by Turkish intelligence to American, British and other allied agencies, as well as to the Saudi authorities. According to the unnamed source who has given the fullest briefing yet on the transcript to CNN, the recording shows that the killing was not the accident claimed by Saudi Arabia but premeditated. The briefing does not say how the source is certain of this, and the evidence given is contradictory. The transcript is said to record Lieutenant-Colonel Maher Mutreb, the senior figure in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s security detail who led the operation, reporting back to Riyadh that “the thing is done”. However, he is also recorded as telling Khashoggi: “You’re coming back”, which would align with Saudi claims that the journalist was killed in a fight after an attempt to return him to Saudi Arabia.

The Financial Times reports that Syrians displaced by the civil war face their houses being demolished by the Assad regime. A new housing bill known as Law 10 gives the government far-reaching powers to expropriate land including the site of homes, which the authorities are permitted to knock down before handing the plot to private developers. For some of the 6 million Syrians displaced by fighting, the law means that if the war did not destroy their homes, then President Bashar al-Assad may yet do so. “We are seeing the conflict move from active hostilities to property rights,” said Sara Kayyali, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, who fears developers will build high-end properties to sell to wealthy Syrians and overseas investors; not the original residents.

The Guardian reports that Iraq has begun removing cement walls from areas surrounding its capital’s most fortified enclave, opening parts of the so-called Green Zone to traffic in a symbolic move coinciding with nationwide celebrations to mark the anniversary of the country’s costly victory over Islamic State. The partial reopening of parts of the high-security area is intended to portray increased confidence in the country’s overall security situation and has also been billed as an act of transparency following protests against corruption and poor public services.

The Times reports that Sappers from Georgia have become the first people for 50 years to stand in three churches on the site of Christ’s baptism in the River Jordan after a huge mine-clearing exercise. Seven churches have been off limits since the Six-Day War of 1967, when the Israelis laid mines across the area. The baptismal site, which is enclosed by an Israeli national park, had a path cut through the minefield for pilgrims to reach the holy waters to mark a visit by Pope John Paul II in 2000. Clearance of the site has long been demanded by Christian leaders, not least the Pope, who has raised the issue personally with Israel’s President, Reuven Rivlin. The project nevertheless required complex negotiations between the Halo Trust, a charity based in Scotland that works in war zones to clear land mines, the Israel Defence Forces, the Ministry of Defence, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Israeli and Palestinian mine clearance organisations — as well as the seven churches. The various Christian denominations have a history of often violent feuding among themselves in the Holy Land. It took two years to find funding, with the Halo Trust eventually raising $500,000 and the Israeli government another $535,000.

Yediot Ahronoth, Maariv and Israel Hayom report on the victims of the shooting attack in the West Bank. The pregnant woman who was seriously injured has improved but the condition of her baby is still very serious. Kan Radio reports that the manhunt for attackers is still underway. Palestinian sources reported that IDF soldiers searched shops and businesses last night in northern Ramallah, put up roadblocks and checked cars. Yediot Ahronoth reports Ramallah sources who said large numbers of IDF troops are operating in the city and that in an unusual step, the IDF raided the offices of the Wafa news agency and barred people from entering and leaving the building. They also reported that IDF forces confiscated security cameras from the building before leaving.

Commenting on the attack, Yossi Yehoshua in Yediot Ahronoth says at this stage the IDF is not yet certain that it was perpetrated by Hamas terrorists, but the terror attack appears to have been professionally executed by two gunmen who used standard-issue rifles. The IDF has documented a rise in the number of attempts by Hamas to execute terror attacks, most of which have been foiled.

Alex Fishman in Yediot Ahronoth, write: “The shooting attack on Sunday in Ofra was another piece of the puzzle of this terrorism picture, which is worsening” Fishman argues that “10 Israelis have been killed and 76 have been injured in terror attacks in the West Bank this year, more than in the Gaza and northern theatres together…after every terror attack, the politicians produce a string of fiery and patriotic statements, but no one pays any serious attention.” He continues “The security establishment’s data point to a substantial uptick in the number of terror attacks, attempted terror attacks and planned terror attacks in the West Bank. Whereas in 2017 the GSS arrested 148 terrorist cells affiliated with Hamas, this year it arrested 250 such cells…Whereas in 2017 about 400 major terror attacks were foiled (kidnappings, suicide bombings, shooting attacks and explosive charges), this year about 530 such terror attacks were foiled, each of which was liable to have produced dozens of casualties.”

Haaretz leads with the ongoing Operation Northern Shield which it argues is entering a ‘Volatile Stage’. Amos Harel writes that “Lebanese army patrols are now facing Israeli forces in those areas where Israel Defence Forces soldiers are digging near the border. In particular, the tension is rising – and with it the potential for a mistake that could develop into a confrontation – in those `enclaves` where the IDF is operating. These are areas north of the border fence over which Israel claims sovereignty according to a UN decision.” Yossi Yehoshua in Yediot Ahronoth writes that “Hezbollah has called on the residents of southern Lebanon to make their way to the Israeli salients, which are on the far side of the border fence but are in sovereign Israeli territory, and to clash with the IDF troops who are operating there to locate tunnels. Troops from the Commando Brigade operating in the area alongside troops from the Yahalom Unit, will have to deal with Lebanese civilians in that volatile situation. The Lebanese army and UNIFIL will try to maintain order but, based on past experience, there is no guarantee that they will succeed.”

Maariv reports that top IDF Officers will leave today for Russia to update on Operation Northern Shield. A high-ranking IDF delegation will leave this morning for Moscow to brief the Russians on Operation Northern Shield against Hezbollah tunnels and to discuss ways to improve the coordination mechanisms to prevent aerial incidents in Syrian airspace. Heading the delegation will be OC Operations Directorate Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva and it will also include officers from IDF Intelligence Branch, the Planning Directorate, the Israel Air Force and from the Israel Navy.

Maariv features a report about the director of the Assault and Collection Unit in the IDF’s Ground Technology Department, Col. Yaniv Avitan, who revealed yesterday how the IDF Galilee Division’s so-called “technological lab” locates Hezbollah’s tunnels.

Kan Radio reports that the Italian interior minister, Matteo Salvini, the leader of the right wing Northern League party, is scheduled to arrive this afternoon in Israel. During his two-day visit he will meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and with Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. President Reuven Rivlin will not meet him. Rivlin’s office said that there was no room in the president’s crowded schedule. The Northern League is opposed to taking in immigrants, and Salvini often speaks nostalgically of Italy’s fascist past under Mussolini. That said, he and his party have condemned the racial laws that were passed against Jews. A spokesperson for Salvini told Kan Radio that the visit was designed to strengthen relations between the two countries.