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Media Summary

Iran executes top nuclear scientist for treason charges

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The Daily Telegraph, Guardian, i and Metro cover Iran’s execution of a top nuclear scientist. Shahram Amiri was executed for “treason,” for allegedly giving information about the Iranian nuclear programme to the US. He claimed he was kidnapped.

The Times and i report on a row at the Rio Olympic Games, where Lebanese athletes refused to share a bus to the opening ceremony with the Israeli team.

Haaretz, Yediot Ahronot, Israel Hayom and Maariv report on a new ministerial committee, established by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Interior Minister Arye Deri, which will work to prevent Israel-boycott activists from visiting the country. The new taskforce will not seek to pass any laws or regulations, but will just implement existing rules.

Maariv and Jerusalem Post continue to report on a row that occurred last Friday, when Israel’s Defence Ministry slammed the Iran nuclear deal and compared it to the 1938 Munich Agreement with Nazi Germany that led to the Second World War. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement supporting the US and President Barack Obama, seemingly in response to the Defence Ministry’s criticism.

Haaretz reports that a Russian drone which crossed the border from Syria into the Golan Heights flew off course by error, according to Russian sources. The drone was intercepted by Israel Air Force jets on July 17, and fled back to Syria.

Israel Hayom and Yediot Ahronot reports that Minister Tzahi Hanegbi has written to the General-Secretary of the Likud Party to ask him to exclude rapper “the Shadow”, real name Yoav Eliasi, from party membership. The Shadow, also a right-wing political activist, joined Likud last week. Hanegbi said that Eliasi does not share the values of Likud.

Israel Hayom and Haaretz report that Attorney General Avichai Mandelbilt has said that the West Bank outpost of Amona must be demolished in accordance with the Supreme Court judgement. However, he has suggested moving the settlement to land nearby.

Israel Hayom reports on the continuing food scare over contaminated breakfast cereals. Unilever Israel shipped a pallet of salmonella-infected cornflakes. Haaretz reports that the company seems to have been negligent in allowing the contaminated cereal to reach supermarket shelves.

Haaretz talks to Rachel Johnson, sister of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, about their time together on a Kibbutz in 1984.