BBC News Online, the Times, the Telegraph, the Independent, the Guardian, HuffPost UK and the Daily Mail report that the Russian-Jewish billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich, has flown to Tel Aviv after being found eligible for Israeli citizenship. Israeli immigration officials said he was interviewed last week at the embassy in Moscow. He has faced delays in renewing his UK visa. His spokesman would not comment on reports citizenship had been granted. Abramovich would be the richest person in Israel. His UK investor visa reportedly expired some weeks ago but the British government has refused to comment on his individual case. The delay in issuing him a new one comes amid increased diplomatic tensions between London and Moscow after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in southern England. Israeli media reports say he has been given an identity card in Israel under the Law of Return, which allows Jews to become citizens of Israel. The Times of Israel said the interior ministry had confirmed Abramovich arrived in Israel on Monday and that he had emigrated to the country. He is a frequent visitor to Israel and bought a hotel in Tel Aviv in 2015 that reports say he has turned into a residence. Israeli passport holders are allowed to enter Britain without a visa for short stays.

The Independent, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Daily Express and the Daily Mail via AFP reports that at least 25 mortar shells have been fired from the Gaza Strip at communities in southern Israel, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has said, in what is thought to be the single biggest rocket attack in the area since the 2014 Hamas-Israel war. No one was injured in the Tuesday morning incident and most missiles were intercepted by Israel’s rocket defence systems. One shell landed near a nursery school shortly before it was due to open for the day, local media reported. The attack, which comes at a time when tensions on the Gaza-Israel border are higher than they have been in years, is likely to incur severe retaliation from the Israeli authorities. “This was the biggest barrage since 2014,” said Lt Col Jonathan Conricus, the IDF international media spokesperson. Immediate suspicion for the attack fell on Islamic Jihad, a smaller militant faction which operates inside Gaza and is tolerated by Hamas, the Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defence Force (IDF) is expected to carry out a wave of airstrikes in Gaza in response to the mortars.

The Times reports Israeli officials have shown off a photograph of an F-35 fighter jet flying over Beirut, in what appears to be a significant show of strength. In the photograph, leaked to the Israeli media after allegedly being shown to foreign diplomats, the jet, the latest model stealth fighter supplied by the United States to the Israeli air force, is seen flying directly over Beirut airport and the city in broad daylight. Last week the Israeli air force claimed to have been the first anywhere in the world to use the F-35, an air-to-air fighter that can also be used for ground attacks, in raids against Iranian positions in Syria. Israel is believed to have cleared the strikes with President Vladmir Putin of Russia.

The Times reports that China has invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to attend a key anti-Nato summit, in another sign of Beijing’s intention to enhance relations between the two countries after America’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. Chinese President Xi will meet Rouhani on the sidelines of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) next month.

The Times reports on the arrest of Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul. Her fate is believed to be the subject of exchanges between the government and western diplomats. Human rights groups say that she is proof that despite the praise heaped on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman no one is safe from his attempts to control his subjects. She was one of ten activists, most of them women, arrested this month. Some have been released but those still detained include Aziza al-Yousef, a well-known academic, Eman al-Nafjan, a prominent blogger, and two male supporters, Mohammad al-Rabea, an activist, and Ibrahim al-Modaimeegh, a lawyer. Hathloul had been arrested before in late 2014, before the crown prince’s rise to power, for driving over the border from Abu Dhabi, where she works. She was only released after King Abdullah died and the Prince of Wales, visiting to pay his condolences, raised her case with King Salman.

The Independent reports that Israel’s public security minister has said he is seeking to revoke members of Hamas’s right to watch television in prison ahead of the FIFA World Cup next month. Gilad Erdan, the minister responsible for Israel’s police and prison services, instructed prisons chief Ofra Klinger that Hamas prisoners should be banned from being able to watch the global sporting event, which runs from 14 June to 15 July.

The Telegraph reports that Israel is increasingly optimistic of being able to force Iran out of Syria as Russia comes to see that Iran’s presence may threaten its own interests, a senior Israeli intelligence official said Monday. Chagai Tzuriel, director general of the Israeli ministry of intelligence, said he believed that Moscow realised that fighting between Iran and Israel could undermine gains made by Russia during the Syrian civil war.

The Daily Mail reports that Israel and Iran have reportedly held a secret meeting to discuss the deteriorating situation on the Syrian border. The two nations allegedly sent representatives to stay in a hotel in Amman, Jordan in next-door rooms. Jordanian officials then acted as mediators – passing messages between the two embattled parties – according to reports in Saudi website Elaph. Although unconfirmed, the report suggested that Iran had reportedly pledged to stay out of fighting in southwest Syria between Syrian forces and rebel groups.

The Daily Express reports that Russian Su-34 aircraft “intercepted” Israeli F-16 fighter jets over Lebanese airspace despite a mechanism to avoid conflicts between Moscow and Jerusalem, it has been reported. Reports including Israeli, Lebanese and Russian media outlets claim two Israeli Air Force F-16 planes were challenged by Sukhoi Su-34 jets over Libya. A video circulated of Russian planes flying over Tripoli, but the clip did not show any Israeli jets. However, Moscow denied the allegations and said it does not conduct missions in Lebanese airspace.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that the Israeli army raided a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank on Monday in an apparent hunt for suspects in the killing of an Israeli soldier. Dozens of IDF troops entered the Amari Refugee Camp in Ramallah in the early hours of Monday, closing off all the entrances. At least 13 Palestinians were lightly or moderately injured during the raid as clashes broke out, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Health Ministry said, with soldiers firing tear gas and bullets. Residents said a number of Palestinians were arrested, though there was no immediate confirmation or statement from the IDF. It came days after an Israeli soldier was killed during a raid inside the camp. Sergeant Ronen Lubarsky, 20, of the Duvdevan special forces unit, was struck on the head by a marble slab thrown during an arrest raid Thursday and died early Saturday.

YNet, Kan Radio News, Haaretz online Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post and Mako report that a heavy barrage of rockets was fired out of the Gaza Strip at around 7:00 this morning. According to online reports, at least two rockets exploded in Israeli communities, one near a kindergarten. No one was reported injured and several of the rockets were intercepted by Iron Dome batteries deployed in the Gaza periphery. The rocket barrage comes after several buildings and vehicles in Sderot were hit by machinegun fire out of the northern Gaza Strip yesterday evening. Earlier in the day yesterday, IDF troops captured a group of Palestinians who crossed the Gaza border fence and who reportedly had been planning to document themselves torching an abandoned IDF position. A tank reportedly fired on the gunmen, killing one Hamas operative and injuring another.

Yedioth Ahronoth reports that Israeli-Russian talks have been held to keep Iran away from the Golan, with Israel Hayom, Maariv and Haaretz reporting that understandings were reached that Assad’s troops will deploy on the border in return. This morning, Kan Radio News reports on a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office saying that Israel had no interest in partial agreements about Syria but, rather, wanted the departure of all Iranian armed forces from Syrian territory in its entirety. Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman is scheduled to leave for meetings with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow to discuss a coordinated position between the two countries on Syria. On Sunday, the London-based newspaper Asharq reported reproted that Israel presented a list of red lines to Russia, and warned that it would take steps to prevent Iran from expanding its presence and deploying its militias in all parts of Syria, not just in southern Syria. The Israeli red lines include, among others, supplying Iranian militias and Hezbollah with missiles and permanent army bases or missile production plants being built in any part of Syria.

Kan Radio News reports that the Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit could indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for fraud, breach of trust and bribery. According to reports, this position is based on the fact that it was Netanyahu who demanded perks from Arnon Milchan and his aides in a systematic pattern that lasted for years. In related news, Shaul Elovitch, who owns a controlling share of Bezeq, was questioned once again last week in reference to Case 4000. Yesterday, Maariv reported that the state is inclined to merge all the cases against Netanyahu together as it decides whether to indict the Prime Minister and, if so, on which charges. Netanyahu is scheduled to be questioned by the police on 12 June.

Kan Radio News also reports that State Attorney Shai Nitzan, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and Supreme Court President Esther Hayut all gave speeches yesterday at the annual Israel Bar Association conference in Eilat. Yediot Ahronot and Maariv report on parts of Mandelblit’s speech in which he said that the law enforcement system is under political attack.

Haaretz reports that the US is hoping for a breakthrough in the ceasefire talks in Gaza in tandem with presenting its peace plan.

Yediot Ahronoth reports that the Israeli Navy has made preparations to stop a flotilla that Hamas intends to launch today in an attempt to break through the maritime blockade on Gaza. Hamas intends to dispatch three fishing boats that will sail for Cyprus. The plan is to have on board those boats people who were injured by the IDF in the past several weeks in the course of the border clashes, as well as university students who are stuck in Gaza and are unable to reach their universities overseas, and several humanitarian cases.

Yediot Ahronot reports that the patrolman from the Hof District Police, who is suspected of assaulting Jafar Farah and of breaking his knee, was forced to take a leave of absence yesterday. Farah said yesterday: “Three policemen assaulted detainees in front of commanders and other policemen. Two of them also threatened the medical team in the Bnei Zion Hospital not to tell what happened. The police commissioner himself tried to whitewash the incident in Haifa. I expect him to apologise to all of the detainees who were arrested and were beaten without any legal grounds.” Attorneys Sammy Iliya and Lior Binyamin, who represent the policeman, questioned the need to place their client on a forced leave of absence before the Police Internal Investigations Department’s investigation was completed.