The Financial Times and Evening Standard report that Iran has test-fired dozens of missiles, including the Shahab-3 whose 2000km range threatens Israeli and western targets in the region, as part of its military exercises this week. The Independent reports that the arrest of two Iranian agents in Kenya is connected to an on-going “cold war” between Iran and Israel. The Iranians, members of the elite al-Quds Force, were planning attacks on the British High Commission, the Israeli Embassy and a Nairobi synagogue. The Daily Telegraph notes American warnings to Iran not to disrupt shipping in the Straits of Hormuz as tension rises over the implementation of a EU ban on Iranian oil imports. The Times reports that Syrian president Bashar Assad has apologised for downing a Turkish fighter plane. According to the BBC, Assad said that Syrian soldiers had thought the plane was Israeli. The Sun notes comments by Suha Arafat to Al-Jazeera in which she claims that tests on her late husband’s personal belongings have found traces of potentially lethal radioactive element Polonium-210. The Daily Telegraph suggests that the tests could strengthen allegations that Arafat was assassinated. The Times notes that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will visit Israel this summer.

As the coalition crisis over the drafting of ultra-orthodox men for military or national service rumbles on, Israel Radio news reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu and vice-premier Shaul Mofaz are scheduled to meet today, after 48 hours of no contact between the two. The chair of the committee tasked with finding a solution to the issue, MK Yohanan Plesner (Kadima), is expected to publish his report this morning, despite Monday’s announcement by the prime minister that the committee had been dissolved. Maariv’s Mazal Mualem comments that Netanyahu is still working on a compromise agreement that would see Kadima and Shas remaining in the government.  Yediot Ahronot reports that two Kadima MKs split from the party yesterday, and former Kadima Council head Haim Ramon announced that he would establish a new centrist party. Ramon’s initiative may pave the way for former party leader Tzipi Livni to return to political life, and may also include political hopeful Yair Lapid.

Haaretz notes that opposition leader Shelly Yachimovich has tabled a bill to dissolve the Knesset and to hold early elections. However, even if Kadima leaves the government, the coalition is expected to survive the vote. Ynet reports that a meeting of Syrian opposition groups in Cairo dissolved in chaos yesterday, with the Kurdish delegation abandoning the meeting. Whilst the groups agreed on vague declarations of support for the Free Syrian Army and to dissolve the ruling Ba’ath party, disagreements are preventing a united opposition to the Assad regime. The Jerusalem Post notes the growing financial crisis in the Palestinian Authority, with news yesterday that the PA will be unable to pay June salaries to its 160,000 employees. The paper also notes Israeli efforts to block Palestinians from participating in an arms trade treaty conference with full status as an independent state. Yediot Ahronot’s Alex Fishman is sceptical about claims Israel was responsible for the death of Yasser Arafat; by the end of his life, Fishman writes, Israel had very little interest in him. Israel Radio news notes the leak of correspondence between British Foreign Office officials, in which they claim that Netanyahu has used the issue of Palestinian incitement against Israel as a ‘delaying tactic’ in peace negotiations.