The Independent, the Telegraph and the Daily Express report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was released from hospital on Tuesday evening after suffering from a high fever and a cough. Netanyahu said on Twitter: “I am on my way home. Sure some rest and hot soup will put things right.” An official statement from his office said hospital tests indicated the Prime Minister was suffering from a mild viral infection of his upper respiratory tract. “The doctors recommended him to rest and undergo medical treatment.” An earlier statement said Netanyahu’s personal physician believed the 68-year-old leader had not fully recovered from an illness two weeks ago and therefore decided he should undergo further tests in hospital.

The Spectator features a column by Alastair Thomas where he argues that his generation (early 20’s) is more worried about Israel than antisemitism. He believes that for young Labour supporters, Zionism is a synonym for white supremacy and western colonialism. He writes that he “constantly hears the same excuse from people my age when they find out that I have Jewish parentage. ‘Oh, I have no problem with Jews whatsoever,’ they assure me. ‘Just Zionism.’ But you have the feeling that for quite a few people, it’s a distinction without much of a difference.”

City AM has published a column by Comment Editor Rachel Cunliffe where she argues that “nothing short of swastika-clad neo-Nazis destroying Jewish-owned shops counts as antisemitism. This narrow definition has enabled some to turn a blind eye to the rising anti-Jewish sentiment in certain corners of the Labour party that has now reached boiling point.” She says that “The question for Labour supporters now is not whether Corbyn himself is an antisemite, but why so many in the party feel comfortable airing views that fit the textbook definition of anti-Jewish prejudice.”

The Times has published a column by Daniel Finkelstein where he argues that “Jeremy Corbyn’s worldview is made for antisemites”. He writes that a “hatred of colonialism, capitalism and Zionism are so intertwined in left-wing minds that distaste for Jews comes easily”.

The Daily Mail reports that one of Jeremy Corbyn’s sons, Tommy Corbyn, was last night dragged into the antisemitism row engulfing the Labour leader as it was revealed he allowed a ‘Nazi cartoon’ to remain on his Facebook profile. He did not remove or criticise the “vile image,” showing an arm marked with the Star of David crushing people, when it was posted on his page a fortnight ago. On 6 March, the electrical engineering graduate wrote on his Facebook page: “Why is it that I can criticise my own, or any other government, but criticism of the Israeli state is immediately branded antisemitic?”

The Sun reports that Corbyn is under fire from all sides over the way he handles antisemitism in Labour. The hard-left leader is accused of letting his allies get away with hatred towards Jews over claims the party hasn’t cracked down hard enough on activists with antisemitic views. BBC News Online reports that at a meeting which was described as “emotional but not rancorous”, Jeremy Corbyn told his shadow cabinet that he would instruct Labour’s incoming general secretary Jennie Formby to make the implementation of measures to tackle antisemitism her priority. Corbyn led a one-hour discussion on antisemitism during which, the BBC understands, two shadow ministers complained that the party had been slow to implement Baroness Chakrabarti’s 2016 report into antisemitism. As Shadow Attorney General, she attended the meeting and was one of a number of party spokespeople to share her own experience of discrimination. Also speaking at the meeting, Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said it was the responsibility of Labour’s top team to address the problem. But, off the record, party insiders reacted angrily to the suggestion that they had been dragging their feet over the Chakrabarti recommendations. The Telegraph reports that a pro-Palestinian lobbying group championed by Jeremy Corbyn is supported by Holocaust deniers and 9/11 conspiracy theorists, a report has ​claimed.​ Activists with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) are accused of harbouring “hardcore antisemitic ideology”, according to the study.  It suggests that at certain PSC branches, some activists were found to have promoted “Holocaust denial”, “global Jewish conspiracies” and “classic antisemitic tropes”.

The Daily Mail reports that Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to deal with antisemitism in his party was laid bare last night. Labour sources revealed they have a backlog of no fewer than 74 allegations of ‘shocking’ anti-Jewish sentiment. Some date back more than two years and have led to suspensions rather than expulsions. Labour MP John Mann said he knew of 130 further cases that had not been dealt with properly and should now be reassessed. A party source said: “many of these cases include the most shocking and blatant antisemitism that would make even a committed neo-Nazi blush.”

The Daily Mail and the Times report on the artist who painted the mural that has sparked the current scandal surrounding Corbyn. The artist has defended his painting in a bizarre rant lashing out at “tyrannical” bankers. Mear One has broken his silence to say that his painting was conveying an “anti-capitalist message” not an antisemitic one. He has penned an article which has run on David Icke’s website – a former footballer well known for his conspiracy theories and who thinks the world is controlled by shape-shifting lizard people. Mear One used the piece to launch an attack on bankers, the media and politicians around the world. Ockerman, who is based in Los Angeles, admitted he had “depicted the elite banking cartel known as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, the ruling elite few playing a game of Monopoly on the backs of the working class”. He accused critics of having taken “liberty” with his earlier accounts of concerns which had been raised while he was painting the mural in a historic Jewish area in London’s East End. The artist wrote on Icke’s website: “Some of the older folk in the community who claimed to be Jewish came upon me and asked me who these characters were. When I replied they were aghast at how I could portray someone like Rothschild in such a wicked manner. They expressed to me all of the good deeds Rothschild had done for the Jewish community and the world at large.”

The Independent reports that a 59-year-old Eritrean man is due to be deported by Israel under controversial new rules for African asylum seekers because the state believes him to be 32, it has emerged.  The clearly middle-aged Gabriot, who has white hair and a lined face, says the mix up is due to a translation mistake in his papers when he arrived in Israel in 2008, Haaretz reported on Tuesday. Despite several attempts to straighten the record in hearings with the Interior Ministry, he is expected to be deported to Rwanda or Uganda next month.

The Times and the Daily Mail via AP report that Israel’s leading demographics expert on Tuesday defended military figures indicating the number of Arabs will soon equal that of Jews in the Holy Land – figures that had sparked outrage from nationalist lawmakers in Parliament. Sergio Della Pergola, a demographer from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, said the numbers of Arabs and Jews are nearly equal when you factor in the population of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. The latest numbers were presented to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Israeli parliament by Colonel Haim Mendez, Deputy Head of the Civil Administration. They showed a significant increase in the number of Palestinians living in the West Bank, of almost a third since 2002. Mendez said that the administration’s estimate was 2.5m-2.7m Palestinians, while the Palestinians’ census recorded 3m. There are 2m more Arabs in Gaza. Some politicians challenged the statistics, telling Mendez to provide evidence and saying that the increase appeared to be based on an unfeasibly high birth rate compared with the death rate. Right-wing groups have suggested that the Palestinian Authority (PA), the semi-autonomous government of the West Bank, has manipulated the figures over recent years to exaggerate the population by between 700,000 and a million. Israeli demographics experts have said that there is little evidence to justify those allegations.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Israel said Tuesday it would not allow bureaucratic red tape to delay the controversial transfer of the US embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem scheduled for May. The construction of a security wall and an emergency exit route both need planning permission, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said in a statement. “We will not allow bureaucracy needlessly to delay the transfer,” he said. Kahlon said the move was of “strategic” importance to Israel and that his staff would “do everything that is needed to respect the timetable”.

The Times published a column by Diplomatic Editor Roger Boyes which argues that Trump’s threat to the Iran nuclear deal puts the Middle East at risk and that his hawkish advisers are playing with fire in pursuit of a deal with North Korea.

The Guardian has published an article from its archive about Mordechai Vanunu. The former nuclear technician convicted in 1988 of treason and espionage for revealing the secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal to a British newspaper, and was sentanced to 18 years in prison.

Yediot Ahronot reports on what it terms the “Perforated Border” referring to the infiltration from Gaza, while Maariv headlines “Failure: Three Palestinians marched from Gaza to Tze’elim,” Haaretz reports that “three Palestinians Infiltrated from Gaza with grenades and knife, and were arrested 20 kilometres from border” and Israel Hayom’s front page discusses the “Failure on Gaza border”.

Yossi Yehoshua in Yediot Ahronot describes a number of events that have taken place near Gaza recently. He argues that “If one adds to those severe incidents along the border fence the embarrassment of the needless and expensive operation this week of an Iron Dome battery, which fired intercepting missiles in response to Hamas machine gun fire – it is clear that the IDF has not only been repeatedly embarrassed, but that the Gaza Division specifically and the Southern Command more broadly have been plagued by a lack of alertness and impaired readiness.” He added that “that state of affairs only serves to ratchet up tensions with a view to Friday, which is expected to be a boiling point in the series of events: a large-scale protest by Palestinians on Passover eve.”

Most newspapers also all focus on Netanyahu’s visit to hospital with a high fever and cough. Kan Radio News reports that Netanyahu is suffering from a mild viral infection in the upper respiratory tract. At the conclusion of last night’s examination, physicians at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem recommended that he rest at home and take medication. The security cabinet will convene today for a meeting as planned. If Netanyahu is absent from the meeting, Defence Minister Lieberman will run the discussion in his stead.

All the main papers feature interviews given by IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot. Yediot Ahronoth reports that the Chief of Staff said that Israel at 70 is an undefeatable country. Ha’aretz emphasises his warning that there is an increased likelihood of escalation this year. Maariv and Israel Hayom report on this comments that Israel will take a firm hand against anyone who marches to its territory.

Kan Radio News reports on a clash between Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein over the torch-lighting ceremony on Independence Day eve. Edelstein announced in a briefing to the event’s producers that should Netanyahu decide to attend the event – something that is against protocol – Edelstein and the Knesset Guard would not take part in it.