BBC News Online, the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent, BBC News, BBC Breakfast, ITV News and BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme all report on a joint letter from The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) accusing Jeremy  Corbyn of being unable to “seriously contemplate antisemitism, because he is so ideologically fixed within a far left worldview that is instinctively hostile to mainstream Jewish communities”. The Labour Party leader has apologised for what he termed “pockets of antisemitism” within the party.  A fresh round of controversy regarding the Labour leader’s stance on antisemitism began over the weekend after comments he had made about an antisemitic mural on Facebook post in 2012 were unearthed.

JLC chairman Jonathan Goldstein told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme that Corbyn “is now the figurehead for an antisemitic political culture based upon obsessive hatred of Israel, conspiracy theories and fake news”. A major demonstration is being planned outside Parliament at 5:30pm this evening, in which MPs including Liz Kendall, John Woodcock and Ian Austin are set to join members of the Jewish community.

The Independent via AP reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised the passing of a law by the US House of Representatives that cuts US funding for the Palestinian Authority (PA) over their practice of paying stipends to convicted terrorists and their families. Netanyahu called the Taylor Force Act, named after an American veteran killed in Israel by a Palestinian in 2016, a “powerful signal by the US that changes the rules” by cutting “hundreds of millions of dollars for the Palestinian Authority that they invest in encouraging terrorism”.

BBC News Online and the Guardian report that Egyptians have headed to the polls today as three days of voting in the Presidential elections began this morning. President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to defeat his challenger Moussa Mostafa Moussa and secure a second term, after several high-profile candidates withdrew from the race, including former Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq. The Times reports that al-Sisi has released a nine-minute video depicting the deployment of tanks and large numbers of soldiers in a bid to reassure the electorate that it will be safe to participate in the voting.

BBC News Online and the Guardian report that Saudi Arabia’s armed forces have shot down seven missiles fired into their territory by Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen. Three of the missiles were fired at the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and one person was subsequently killed when fragments of the destroyed missile landed in a suburb of the city. The Guardian reports that the charity Unicef has warned that another outbreak of cholera in Yemen can be expected in the coming months. Unicef President Geert Cappelaere said: “A few weeks from now the rainy season will start again and without a huge and immediate investment, cholera will again hit Yemeni children.” In 2017, over one million children in Yemen were infected by the disease.

 The Times reports that the remaining rebel fighters in the Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta are being separated from their families and rounded up, with the intention of forcing them to fight for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Reuters reports that Israel is set to invest £202m in a project to make data about the health of its population available to researchers and private companies. Netanyahu called the Big Data project “a major asset and we want to make it accessible to researchers and developers”.

Reuters also reports that despite the activation of an Iron Dome anti-missile defence battery last night, an IDF spokesperson said there was no indication of missiles fired from the Gaza Strip. It is thought that the battery was responding to machine-gun fire from Gaza into Israeli territory. We are “looking into the circumstances which led to the activation of the Iron Dome system,” the spokesperson said. The Mail Online via AFP reports that the IDF struck two Hamas positions in Gaza in response to the machine-gun fire.

The Daily Express reports on the threat to “finish off Israel’s life within less than 25 years” by Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Abdolrahim Mousavi, reported in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Tasnim news agency last night.

In the Israeli media, all the papers note the tension in the south and the machine-gun fire that last night caused Iron Dome to be activated along the Gaza periphery.  Kan Radio News this morning reports that the IDF attacked two Hamas observation posts in the northern Gaza Strip last night in response. IDF officials are examining the circumstances of the mistake that resulted in false alarms being sounded throughout the south and in dozens of Iron Dome interception missiles being fired. The warning systems identified the machine-gun fire in the Gaza Strip as high-trajectory fire aimed at Israel.

All the Israeli papers prominently report on a fire in a block of flats in the southern city of Beer Sheva.  One young child died with a second in critical condition. A third child, an eight year-old girl, survived by jumping from the tower block.

Yediot Ahronot report comments by the head of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Hertzi Halevy, at a conference hosted by the paper.  Halevy said, “Iran is in distress and doesn’t want to invest far from Iran, but wants to improve domestically. Now is the best opportunity since the agreement was signed to achieve a change in its behaviour. That change won’t be achieved solely in the negotiating rooms but will require a crisis—economic, political or other. The more uniform a position that the world presents, the more the chance for a change.” Regarding the Palestinians, he said: “May contains several significant factors: there are signs in Judea and Samaria of mounting complexity surrounding Israel’s 70^th Independence Day. The month of May also has Nakba Day and the beginning of Ramadan, which beckon increased volatility. Hamas is at a low point, a severe civilian and infrastructure crisis. Hamas is running into Iran’s arms and it needs to understand that the actions that it is taking are going to worsen its situation.”

Maariv reports on IDF preparations ahead of the mass march on Friday, including, “most extreme-case scenarios”.  Several battalions will remain on alert over the holiday and the decision as to where to place them, whether on the Gaza border or in the West Bank, will be made based on developments. The IDF intends to include many snipers and sharpshooters among the troops deployed along the border of the Gaza Strip on Friday in case there is a need for live fire against rioters if they try to breach the fence. The IDF believes that it will thus be able, to contain the incidents and prevent the situation from deteriorating.

Yediot Ahronot reports the speech at its conference by former Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz, who “stunned the audience” when he revealed in the course of the discussion that John Bolton, the Trump administration’s new national security adviser, had previously urged Israel to attack the Iranian nuclear program. “I know John Bolton. Back while he was the US ambassador to the UN he tried to persuade me that Israel needed to attack Iran. I don’t think that that is a wise action—either by the Americans today or by anyone else, until that threat becomes palpable.”

According to Kan Radio News, Hezbollah denied reports that its positions were bombed last night on the Syrian-Lebanese border. Several Arab media outlets had reported earlier that the sound of explosions could be heard in the Bekaa Valley area as well as from the Syrian side of the border. Some of the reports claimed that the IAF conducted an attack in the area. The IDF said that it does not respond to foreign reports.

Maariv and Yediot Ahronot both report that the police will simultaneously question Netanyahu, his wife Sara and his son Yair today in Case 4000, which relates to Bezeq and news site Walla. Bezeq shareholder Shaul Elovitch will also be questioned.