A number of outlets report on the tensions between Israel and Poland following Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s comments at the Munich Security Conference where he claimed Jews were among the perpetrators of the Holocaust. BBC News Online reports that Swastikas have been drawn on the gates of Poland’s embassy in Israel. Police in Tel Aviv launched an inquiry after profanities and the word “murderer” were also discovered. The Daily Mail reports that Poland’s Jews have been left “psychologically shaken” by the rise in antisemitic acts in Poland following a dispute with Israel over a new Holocaust speech law. An eruption of antisemitic comments in public debates have raised concerns that this could lead to violence against Jews and some have considered fleeing. Yahoo News UK via AFP reports that Poland sought to defend remarks by its prime minister which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “unacceptable” and tantamount to denying the Holocaust. Morawiecki said his comments, during a discussion in Munich, “were by no means intended to deny the Holocaust, or charge the Jewish victims of the Holocaust with responsibility for what was a Nazi German perpetrated genocide,” Morawiecki’s spokeswoman Joanna Kopcinska said in a statement. The Times reports on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Polish PM. He condemned the “outrageous” remarks by his Polish counterpart and criticised the Polish Prime Minister’s “inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people”.

The Times, BBC News Online, BBC News at 6, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Financial Times and the Daily Mail report on Netanyahu’s speech at the Munich Security conference. He launched a stinging attack on Iran, telling the conference it is the “greatest threat to our world”. Netanyahu said Israel would “not allow Iran’s regime to put a noose of terror around our neck”. In a moment of drama, he brandished what he said was a piece of an Iranian drone shot down in Israeli territory asking Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister: “Do you recognise it? You should, it’s yours. Don’t test us.” Netanyahu also appeared to threaten Iran with further retaliation, adding: “We will act if necessary not just against Iran’s proxies, but against Iran itself.” Zarif later dismissed the speech as “cartoonish” and not worthy of a response. He accused Netanyahu of attempting to revive anti-Iranian “hysteria” and also denounced what he said were Israel’s “almost daily illegal incursions into Syrian airspace”.

The Independent, the Guardian, the Times and the BBC News Online report that two Palestinian teenagers have been shot dead by the Israeli military near the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. The Palestinian health ministry said the bodies of two 17-year-olds who were killed trying to infiltrate Israel on Saturday were recovered. The Israeli military said it had shot towards two people who had tried to cross the border fence from Gaza. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) carried out a number of strikes against Palestinian positions overnight in the Gaza Strip. They came in response to a bomb attack on Saturday which wounded four Israeli soldiers. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) also claimed to have destroyed a number of sites linked to Hamas. It said it hit 18 Hamas military targets from Saturday night through to Sunday, including “weapons manufacturing infrastructure” and a tunnel being dug by militants. It also targeted two observation posts.

The Daily Mail reports that Israeli researchers carried out a four-day mission in the desert to help prepare for a future trip to Mars. A team of six Israeli researchers today ended a four-day Mars habitat experiment in Israel’s Negev desert where they simulated living conditions on the Red Planet, Israel’s Science and Technology Ministry said. The experiment was held near the isolated Israeli township of Mitzpe Ramon, whose surroundings resemble the Martian environment in its geology, aridity, appearance and desolation, according to the ministry. Participants were investigating various fields relevant to a future Mars mission, including satellite communications, the psychological effects of isolation, radiation measurements and searching for life signs in soil.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that security agency Shin Bet said on Sunday that Israel had arrested six Palestinians suspected of planning an attack on Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and other Israelis in the occupied West Bank. Shin Bet said the six were affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group and were active in the Bethlehem area where they sought to carry out shootings against Israeli civilians and security forces. In addition, some of the group had been planning to target Lieberman’s vehicle when he travelled to his home in a West Bank settlement.

All of the Israeli media focus on Case 4,000, also known as the Bezeq affair. It involves several business executives with ties to Netanyahu, who was at the time also serving as Communications Minister, being detained for questioning yesterday and having their remands extended. Investigators suspect that the Communications Ministry gave lucrative benefits to Shaul Elovitch, the controlling shareholder of Bezeq and the owner of the Walla website, in exchange for positive coverage of Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu on Walla News.

Yediot Ahronot runs a headline “Closest to Netanyahu” [Bezeq and media officials detained for questioning; Maariv writes of a “Wave of Arrests in Bezeq Affair; Netanyahu Scheduled to be Questioned” Haaretz headlines “Case 4,000 Arrests: 2 Netanyahu Confidants Suspected of Bribe Taking; PM to be Questioned Under Caution’ and Israel Hayom report that “Prime Minister Likely to be Questioned in Case 4,000”.

Kan Radio reports that the Israel Police are investigating whether Mrs. Netanyahu communicated with Shaul Elovitch and Bezeq executives through intermediaries, and that they have hundreds of items of correspondence between Walla News and Netanyahu’s associates.

Sima Kadmon in Yediot Ahronot writes that “The large number of suspects who arrived at the courthouse last night to have their remands extended leaves no room for doubt. The police are treating the case that to date has been called Case 4,000 very seriously, and since yesterday it has turned out to be at the top of the list of cases in which the prime minister is allegedly involved.”

Maariv draws a parallel with Case 2000: “What happened at Bezeq and Walla is similar to what’s reflected in the recordings between Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes in Case 2,000,” said a figure who is involved in the investigation. “It’s a similar pattern—benefits in exchange for favourable coverage. But whereas Case 2,000 only entails the intent to commit crimes, in this case it’s suspected that crimes had already been committed.”

Ma’ariv reports on a petition to recall Israel’s ambassador to Poland after comments made by the Polish Prime Minister at the Munich Security Summit. The Government of Poland later said that: “The comments of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during a discussion in Munich were by no means intended to deny the Holocaust, or charge the Jewish victims of the Holocaust with responsibility for what was a Nazi German perpetrated genocide.” Haaretz reports that PM Netanyahu called the remarks outrageous.

Haaretz also reports that Israel is modifying its deployment on the Golan Heights in order to deny Iranian forces’ access to the border.