The UK media widely covers the report published yesterday, which alleges that former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat died as a result of radioactive poisoning. The Daily Telegraph, the Times and the Guardian also report that Palestinian Authority announced that following the report, it would support exhuming Arafat’s body to conduct further tests. The Independent reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s two-month-old broadened coalition hit its first crisis yesterday over the controversial issue of compulsory military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews. The paper also notes that Yigal Amir, the assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will be taken out of solitary confinement for the first time since his arrest 17 years ago. The Times also covers Iranian threats that its missiles can hit US bases within minutes of an attack on its nuclear facilities. BBC online reports that Kenya cancelled its oil imports from Iran, days after the US, EU and other countries tightened the sanctions on Iran.

Israel’s front pages are dominated by the brewing coalition over the demand for more equal military and civilian service. All papers cover the press conference of MK Yohanan Plesner of Kadima, who headed the equal service committee and presented its finding yesterday, despite the PM order to dissolve the committee. Yedioth Ahronoth notes that while Kadima Chairman MK Shaul Mofaz refrained from explicitly and publicly presenting Netanyahu with an ultimatum, he has indicated through back channels that a failure by Netanyahu to endorse the Plesner Committee recommendations fully would lead to an end of Kadima’s partnership in the coalition. Meanwhile, Ynet and Maariv report that activists in support of a Haredi draft are planning to hold a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. Yediot Ahronot also notes twitter messages sent last night from the account of newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, which suggest Israeli President Shimon Peres has been invited to Egypt in August. All papers also cover the decision yesterday to not upgrade the Ariel Academic College, based beyond the 1967 Green line, to a university.