The Independent i reports that Israeli and Jordanian officials have indicated that surveillance cameras could be installed on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem within days. Jordan suggested the measure over the weekend in order to independently monitor activities at the holy site and reduce tensions. The Temple Mount has been a focal point for violence over the last month, in which 12 Israelis have been killed. Israel and US Secretary of State John Kerry have supported the installation of cameras, but Palestinian Authority (PA) officials have rejected the idea.

The Telegraph, Daily Mirror and the online edition of the Guardian all report that Harry Potter author JK Rowling has defended her opposition to a cultural boycott of Israel. Last week Rowling joined around 150 leading British artists and politicians calling for cultural cooperation and dialogue as a bridge to peace and rejecting cultural boycotts of Israel as divisive and anathema to peace. She yesterday explained her stance, saying that although she does not agree with the policies of the current Israeli government and that Palestinians have been subject to “injustice and brutality,” the effects of a boycott will ultimately impact “ordinary Israelis” and silence those who support peace.

The Daily Mail and the online edition of the Independent cover a letter signed by 343 UK academics, who have declared their intention to boycott Israeli universities (although not individual academics), over Israeli treatment of the Palestinians. The Daily Mail quotes UK Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey who says “The Government will never allow those who want to boycott Israel to shut down 60 years of partnership that does so much to make both our countries stronger.” Meanwhile, writing in the Telegraph, Senior Rabbi of Reform Judaism, Laura Janner-Klausner says that boycotting Israel is wrong as it is both “punitive” and will “only cement the status quo.”

Meanwhile, the Times reports that the United States is considering a new strategy in Syria, which could involve American troops on the ground. The online editions of the Telegraph and Guardian both say that US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter told a Senate committee that there could be increased US air strikes and even “direct action” on the ground. The Guardian says that the United States has lifted its objection to Iranian participation at multilateral Syrian peace talks. The online editions of the Financial Times and Telegraph both report that Russia has suffered its first casualty since deploying in Syria earlier this month. Roger Boyes in the Times predicts that Russia’s President Putin will eventually receive a “bloody nose” for Moscow’s Syria intervention.

In the Israeli media, Maariv leads with the headline “Unending terror,” covering two stabbing incidents yesterday in the West Bank. Palestinian assailants attempted to stab soldiers in Hebron, while a soldier was moderately wounded at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank after two Palestinians stabbed him in the head. Both attackers were shot dead at the scene. Meanwhile, Israel Radio news says that 76-year-old Richard Lakin passed away yesterday from injuries he sustained in a terror attack on a bus in the Armon Hanatziv neighbourhood of Jerusalem two weeks ago. Lakin is the third fatality from the attack.

The top story in Yediot Ahronot, also covered prominently in Maariv and Israel Hayom, is the arrest yesterday of Haggai Amir, brother of the assassin who killed former-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin twenty years ago. Amir was arrested on suspicion of threatening President Reuven Rivlin, who this week said he would never commute the sentence of Amir’s brother. Amir consequently wrote on Facebook that the time had come for Rivlin and the State of Israel to “pass on.”

Israel Hayom leads with the decision by the Attorney General to indict former-government minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer on bribery and money laundering charges. Ben Eliezer, who was a major figure in the Labour Party and one-time defence minister, is accused of accepting bribes from three businessmen in exchange for using his position to assist companies they owned.