The Guardian reports that Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked described the appointment of four new justices to Israel’s Supreme Court as “historic”. Three of the four new justices are considered conservative and less interventionist. The article calls the appointments the “latest effort” by right-wing leaders “to transform Israeli institutions regarded as too left-wing or elitist”. The article quotes Yedidya Stern, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, who called the new judges “good and efficient”.

The Times reports that Israel’s former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger was sentenced yesterday to four and a half years in prison for taking £2m in bribes. The sentence was unusual because the judge rejected a plea bargain agreement of three and a half years in prison, agreed between Metzger’s lawyers and state prosecutors.

The Independent says UN officials have condemned a ‘stop work’ order issued by Israeli authorities in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank. The order is often a prelude to home demolitions by Israeli security forces.

The Financial Times reports that Israel’s Finance Ministry has published a draft amendment empowering it to sanction Israeli binary options companies offering products abroad. The article notes the growing pressure within Israel to crack down on the industry, that many consider to be unethical.

The Times covers an announcement by the Israeli-owned software giant Playtech, which expects to make additional purchases in 2017, after reporting 12 per cent revenue growth last year.

The Telegraph and Daily Mail report that Universities Minister Jo Johnson has written to Universities UK warning there should be no “intimidation and violence” targeting Jewish students on campuses during the upcoming “Israel Apartheid Week”. The letter said it is the responsibility of universities to ensure there is no “discrimination, harassment or victimisation” of students.

The Guardian, i and Daily Mail report on comments made by the wife of Jamal al-Harith, the British man who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq this week. She said al-Harith was questioned by police for six hours on his return from Gaza in 2009, where he was part of George Galloway’s Viva Palestina convoy.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot is the suggestion that the long awaited State Comptroller report investigating the handling of the Hamas tunnel threat, prior to Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014, will reprimand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon. The report is expected to be published next Tuesday.

The main item in Israel Hayom, also prominently reported in Maariv, are comments by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan that he is prepared to apologise if an ongoing investigation shows that the killing of an Israeli police officer in the Bedouin community of Umm al-Hiran last month was not a terrorist attack. Erdan initially said that a Bedouin man shot dead by police was a terrorist who was carrying out a vehicle attack.

Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Israel Hayom and Israel Radio news cover yesterday’s recommendation by police to prosecute Ari Harow, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s former Chief of Staff, for bribe-taking, fraud, breach of trust, and other offences. Police said  they have enough evidence to show that Harow fictitiously sold a company he owned prior to becoming Netanyahu’s Chief of Staff, infringing a conflict of interest agreement he signed. Maariv suggests that the State Attorney’s Office is considering proposing that Harow become a state witness in criminal investigations facing Netanyahu.