Both the Times and Telegraph report that Israeli police yesterday detained and questioned the leader of a Jewish extremist group, who earlier this week appeared to support attacks on churches. Bentzi Gopstein heads the Lehava organisation, which ostensibly encourages Jewish women not to marry non-Jewish men, but has been implicated in hate crimes including an arson attack on a joint Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem. Gopstein’s detention comes with Israeli authorities taking unprecedented action to eliminate Jewish terrorism after two deadly attacks two weeks ago.

The Independent includes an interview with 20-year-old Jewish extremist Aviya Morris, who caused controversy several weeks ago when she made offensive comments towards Muslims while visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the al-Aqsa mosque is situated. The site is holy to both Jews and Muslims, although Jews are not permitted to pray there.

The Telegraph reports that doctors at two Israeli hospitals have apparently refused to force-feed a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike. The Islamic Jihad activist has refused food for more than 50 days, but some doctors say that a new law which permits force-feeding is unethical as it is both a painful procedure and is conducted without the patient’s consent.

The Daily Mail says that Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn MP has agreed to share a platform with a virulent Hamas supporter and a cartoonist who competed in Iran’s Holocaust-denial cartoon competition.

The Independent i and the online edition of the Guardian both report that the Obama Administration has intervened in a New York court case, urging judges to “carefully consider” the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) fragile financial condition before setting a bond. The PA is appealing a court ruling which found it guilty of supporting terror regarding attacks in Israel which injured or killed members of 10 American families.

The Times online reports that a cousin of Syria’s President Assad has been arrested, following a public outcry after he was said to have killed an army officer in a road rage incident after the official delayed his motorcade.

In the Israeli media, the top item in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom is the High Court’s decision yesterday to rule against a petition to cancel the anti-infiltration law, which allows for illegal African migrants to be held in detention. The court has twice ordered the law to be revised, but this time accepted the basic premise of detention. However, the panel of nine justices decided that the period of detention itself should be reduced from 20 months to 12 months. It means that around 1,000 migrants are set to be freed within weeks. There are an estimated 50,000 illegal African migrants in Israel, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan. In Yediot Ahronot, Ben-Dror Yemini praises the court decision, saying, “The point of balance that was established yesterday was not just between human rights and state needs, it was between the High Court of Justice and the state.”

Israel Hayom and Maariv both focus on the announcement yesterday that a prominent Hamas operative has been apprehended by Israeli security forces. Under interrogation, he revealed details of Hamas’s rearmament and tunnel construction in the Gaza Strip since Operation Protective Edge. He also said that the Hamas rebuilding is being backed by Iran both financially and militarily.

Israel Radio news notes that a petition has been started on the UK parliament website to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a planned visit to Britain next month. The petition has around 30,000 signatures and accuses Netanyahu of responsibility for more than 2,000 Palestinian deaths last summer. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the petition a public relations stunt with no practical significance.