The i and Daily Star both cover Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s visit to Israel yesterday, where he met the country’s leaders including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and also travelled to Ramallah to meet President Mahmoud Abbas and others. The i emphasises that Johnson reaffirmed the government’s “absolute” commitment to the two-state solution and described West Bank settlement construction as a “barrier” towards this. The Daily Star quotes Johnson saying that there is a “real opportunity to get a lasting peace, but we need bold Israeli and Palestinian leadership”.

Quoting anonymous Whitehall sources, the Times says that the first official visit to Israel by a member of the Royal Family “looks set to go ahead this year”. Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin extended an invitation for a royal visit during his meeting with Boris Johnson yesterday.

The i reports that the Knesset passed an initial reading of draft legislation known as the “Muezzin Bill” yesterday, which would ban the use of loudspeakers to amplify the Muslim call to prayer between 11pm and 7am. The report says that Joint Arab List MK Ahmed Tibi tore up the bill at the podium.

The Independent and i both say that military prosecutors will appeal what they regard as an “excessively lenient” sentence given to soldier Elor Azaria last month. Azaria received an 18-month prison sentence for manslaughter after shooting dead an incapacitated Palestinian assailant in Hebron last year. Azaria is set to appeal the conviction.

The Sun says an Israeli study indicates that older people who spend time outdoors have fewer complaints of aching bones, sleep problems and other health-related issues.

A BICOM briefing is quoted in a Daily Star feature on UK jihadists, saying that they are often radicalised online with the message that “jihad is sexy and cool”.

The Guardian online says that there have been protests in numerous Egyptian cities following a cut in bread subsidies.

The Times online reports that US marines have been deployed to Syria, in order to help to fight ISIS in Raqqa. In the Financial Times, David Gardner predicts that “[President] Assad is a long way from victory,” leaving Iran and Russia with a dilemma of how long to commit their forces to aiding his army.

In the Israeli media, Maariv, Israel Hayom and Israel Radio all prominently cover Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow today, where he will meet Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu is expected to request that Iranian ambitions in Syria be curbed and emphasise that removing ISIS from Syria must not mean replacing it with Tehran’s influence.

The first reading of the “Muezzin Bill” is the top story in Israel Hayom, which describes the scenes afterwards in the Knesset as a “commotion” Israel Radio news says that Jordan has condemned the draft legislation and claims that it would violate the 1994 peace treaty between the two countries, in which Jordan was given special status regarding mosques in East Jerusalem.

Israel Hayom covers television reports which claimed that during his latest round of police questioning regarding gifts he allegedly gave to Prime Minister Netanyahu and his family, Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan significantly altered his testimony However, both Maariv and Israel Radio quote a spokesperson for Milchan, who said that there had been no substantive change in his testimony.

Yediot Ahronot reports that Switzerland’s parliament yesterday voted in favour of a measure banning the state from financing any agency that “‎supports racism, anti-Semitism and BDS [boycotts, divestment and sanction]”. The article says that it is the first time a European parliament has put BDS in “its rightful place alongside racism and anti-Semitism”.