The Telegraph and the online editions of the Times and the Financial Times all report that US Secretary of State John Kerry called yesterday for Israel and Turkey to restore full diplomatic ties. Kerry’s comments, made during a visit to Istanbul where he met with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the country’s Foreign Minister, comes just two weeks after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paved the way for normalisation of ties between the two countries, apologising to Erdogan for an incident in 2010 which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard a Gaza-bound Turkish protest vessel after Israeli commandos had boarded the boat. Kerry said that Turkey could have “a profound impact on the peace process.”

The Guardian focuses on the next stage of Kerry’s trip, saying that expectations are low that progress will be made towards renewing peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Kerry met late yesterday with Palestinian Authority  (PA)President Mahmoud Abbas, while he will meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu later today. An editorial in the Times says that Kerry’s visit will reveal which regional leaders are serious about brokering a peace deal.

Both the Telegraph, Independent i and the Independent cover comments made yesterday by Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister for Strategic Affairs, who said that the international community should place an “unequivocal red line” in front of Iran in the coming few weeks, following the lack of progress at the latest round of talks over the weekend between the P5+1 global forum and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear programme. An opinion piece in the Independent argues that nuclear negotiations with Iran should not be written off yet.

The Guardian says that the weakening of the United Nations peacekeeping force on the Golan Heights and the strengthening of Islamist Syrian opposition forces in the area has heightened Israeli concerns that Syria’s civil war could spill over the border between the two countries.

Meanwhile, both the Times and the online edition of the Independent report on attempts yesterday by the international hacker ‘Anonymous’ to cause havoc to Israel’s internet system. Damage appeared to be restricted to minor disruptions to the online service of some Israeli government and other official websites.

The Israeli media this morning is dominated by Holocaust Memorial Day which is being marked in Israel today. Most titles devote several pages of coverage to Holocaust-related articles and features. Several, including Haaretz and Israel Hayom take their front-page headline from an address given by Prime Minister Netanyahu at the state memorial ceremony last night at which he said that Israel will not place its fate in the hands of others, viewed as a reference to the nuclear threat posed by Iran. Israel Radio News reports that at the same time as Netanyahu made his speech, a Gaza rocket landed in the Shar Hanegev region of southern Israel, causing no injuries or damage.

There is also significant coverage of John Kerry’s visit to the region. In Yediot Ahronot, Shimon Shiffer says that Turkey has been dragging its feet over normalising ties with Israel and asks why a clear timetable for such a process was not set out. Writing in Maariv, Eli Bardenstein reports on Kerry’s meeting last night with PA President Mahmoud Abbas and claims that Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is also responsible for heading an Israeli delegation in any future peace talks, does not view Abbas’ recognition of Israel as a Jewish State to be a precondition for talks.

Haaretz reports that the attempted cyber-attack on Israel yesterday was largely a failure.