There is widespread coverage of the final day of Pope Francis’s visit to Israel, which took place yesterday. The Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Independent i, Daily Mirror, Sun and Metro all pay particular attention to the Pope’s visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and to a memorial for victims of terror at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem. Most reports say that his visit to the memorial was not originally scheduled; it has been suggest that this was added to the Pope’s itinerary as a counterweight following his unscheduled stop at Israel’s security barrier in Bethlehem on Sunday. The Independent i notes that the leader of the Lebanese Maronite Church visited Israel to meet the Pope, the first ever visit by a Lebanese dignitary to the country, albeit in an entirely religious capacity.

The Times says that Pope Francis and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged opposing historical views yesterday, after Netanyahu said that Jesus had spoken Hebrew. The Pope retorted that Jesus had in fact spoken Aramaic, while Netanyahu countered that he would have at least known Hebrew.

In an analysis of the Pope’s two-day visit in the Telegraph, Damian Thompson says that the pontiff’s apparent spontaneity is invariably carefully calculated, including gestures and language used regarding the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Financial Times online reports that a Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant against former-IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and three other former senior Israeli military leaders, over the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010; nine Turkish citizens were killed whilst trying to prevent Israeli commandos taking over a Gaza-bound protest ship. The incident led to previously warm diplomatic ties being cut between the two countries. A reconciliation had been widely expected in the near future, but the arrest warrant threatens to delay such a resolution.

The Independent, Daily Express and Independent i all report that the shooting dead of four people including an Israeli couple on Saturday at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, may have been the work of a hired hit man.

The Guardian, Times and Financial Times all cover the start of voting in Egypt’s presidential election yesterday. Former military general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood last year, is widely expected to sweep to power with a large majority. He faces just one rival candidate, who is given little chance of victory. In the Guardian online, Ian Black says that al-Sisi’s election would place Western powers in a predicament and likely force them to work alongside al-Sisi out of “pragmatic engagement, not principles.”

In the Israeli media, Israel Hayom leads with the confirmation that six candidates will contest a 10 June election to succeed President Shimon Peres, which will be decided by a secret ballot of Knesset members. Current MKs Reuven Rivlin, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Meit Sheetrit will stand; as will former-MK Dalia Itzik, former-Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner and Nobel Prize laureate Dan Shechtman. All have the required endorsement of 10 MKs and Israel Radio news says that they will formally present their candidacies to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein today.

The top story in Maariv is the arrest warrants issued by an Istanbul court against former-senior Israeli military officials over the Mavi Marmara incident. The report says that Israeli officials have condemned the court warrants as purely political. Analysts in Yediot Ahronot say the court is acting on the orders of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, although Ben Caspit in Maariv suggests that it is in fact the initiative of Erdogan’s opponents.

Meanwhile, Makor Rishon leads with the ongoing dispute over cuts to the defence budget, reporting that the IDF has said salaries of career soldiers are at risk unless extra budget is allocated.