The Financial Times and online edition of the Telegraph report on a news conference held yesterday in the southern Israeli port of Eilat. During which, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon unveiled the cache of weapons on board a ship seized by Israeli naval forces last week, which they explained was sent by Iran and destined for Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip. The arms haul included 40 long-range missiles, 181 mortar shells and around 400,000 bullets. Netanyahu called on the international community not to deceive itself over the nature of the Iranian regime and to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

The Times and online edition of the Financial Times cover yesterday’s announcement that Prime Minister David Cameron will visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority tomorrow and Thursday this week. Cameron is scheduled to address the Knesset during his visit.

The Guardian,  Independent and Independent i all cover an incident at the Allenby Bridge Israel-Jordan border crossing yesterday, during which Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian man with Jordanian citizenship after he apparently attempted to seize a soldier’s gun. The man was later identified as a West Bank-born judge working in Jordan and the shooting sparked protests outside the Israeli embassy in Jordan’s capital Amman.

The Telegraph online includes a feature on today’s municipal election in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that October’s original ballot was invalid due to multiple discrepancies and irregularities. Mayoral challenger Eli Cohen had narrowly lost the original election to Shas incumbent Moshe Abutbul. The vote is seen as a tense battle between the city’s ultra-Orthodox community and other residents and the election is viewed by many as a vote to determine the future character of the city.

The Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent i, Evening Standard, Daily Mail and Independent all report that Israeli digital advertising company Matomy has launched plans to float on the London Stock Exchange to raise £60million.

Elsewhere in the region, the Independent covers an Amnesty International report which accuses President Assad and his forces of forcibly starving the residents of the Yarmouk district of Damascus as a military tactic. Meanwhile, the Guardian and online edition of the Times report that European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, who heads the international community’s delegation in nuclear talks with Iran, has been sharply criticised by Iranian hardliners after she met with women’s activists during a visit to Tehran.

In the Israeli media, the news conference in Eilat displaying weapons seized by Israeli naval forces last week is widely covered. It is the top story in Yediot Ahronot, Makor Rishon and Israel Hayom which carries a headline asking “Is more proof necessary?”. Writing in Yediot Ahronot, senior commentator Nahum Barnea concludes that despite Prime Minister Netanyahu’s best efforts, “For all intents and purposes, the world has resigned itself to Iran becoming a nuclear threshold state. That is the reality.”

Meanwhile, Haaretz and the NRG-Maariv website focus on today’s Knesset vote on the governance bill which if passed will raise the electoral threshold from 2 to 3.25 per cent and limit the number of ministers and deputy ministers permitted in government. Opposition parties yesterday chose not to participate in a debate on the bill in protest at the coalition’s agreement to treat it as part of a legislative package of three significant bills, essentially guaranteeing that all become law.

Israel Hayom and Haaretz report on the incident at the Allenby Bridge yesterday in which Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man with Jordanian citizenship, who reportedly attempted to seize a soldier’s weapon. Israel Radio news says that Jordanian MPs have called for a vote of no-confidence in their government over the incident.

NRG-Maariv, Makor Rishon and Israel Radio news all say that police have been deployed at polling stations in Beit Shemesh and Nazareth to ensure that municipal elections there today run fairly after original votes were deemed unlawful by the courts due to irregularities and fraud.