The Financial Times reports on tensions between Israel and Syria. Israel is thought to have carried out several air strikes during the last week, primarily to prevent the transfer of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah. The article says that the tension has “fuelled fears” of a “shadow war” between Israel and Hezbollah, which could lead to an eventual conflict that will “consume” Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based.

The Financial Times online includes a feature on the so-called “Red-Dead” water project, between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. The project, which will require international investment, is designed to increase water supply and to replenish the receding Dead Sea by pumping water from the Red Sea. The article says that it has been “championed… as a vehicle for economic cooperation in a region where… widespread animosity toward Israel exists”.

The Times, Telegraph and Guardian all report on a discovery made by the Israel Antiquities Authority near the central city of Ramla. They have uncovered the remains of a British Army barracks, used during a respite in fighting during the First World War in 1917. In particular, they discovered hundreds of gin and whiskey bottles.

The Telegraph online says that the US-led coalition has airdropped Syrian fighters near the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, in order to cut off their main access route. The online editions of the Guardian and Telegraph both report that a US-led coalition airstrike near Raqqa has killed at least 33 people taking refuge from fighting in a school.

The Independent includes a feature on a 30-year-old ecology project conducted by about 100 Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians to help preserve barn owls in the region. The scheme is now the subject of an academic paper titled “Nature knows no boundaries: The role of nature conservation in peace building”.

In the Israeli media, yesterday’s terror attack in Westminster is the top story in Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom, which leads with the headline “Terror outside Big Ben”. The attack is also a major item in Yediot Ahronot, which notes that Israeli tourists were among those marooned on the London Eye while the scene of the attack remained a closed area.

In domestic news, Yediot Ahronot and Channel Two both report that US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt demanded last week, during a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, that Israel should not build outside of the major settlement blocs in the West Bank. Yediot Ahronot’s Yuval Karni and Itamar Eichner report that Netanyahu was taken by surprise at the condition, but that “Trump’s demand that Netanyahu declare a construction moratorium was a precondition for having the Saudis join a regional process”.

Maariv says that Netanyahu will return today from an official visit to China, to face the ongoing coalition crisis over the new public broadcasting corporation. Arik Bender and Dana Somberg report that anonymous Likud sources disclosed that if Netanyahu attempts to force an early election against the wishes of a majority of Likud’s Knesset faction, then he will face a rebellion and efforts to form an alternative government headed by a Likud minister other than Netanyahu.

Israel Radio reports that controversial Rabbi Yigal Levinstein and his colleague Rabbi Eli Sadan have been summoned for a hearing by the director general of the Defence Ministry. Levinstein, who heads a pre-military academy for religious youth, sparked a recent furore after he made recorded comments disparaging the role of women in the army. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman asked Levinstein to resign or else risk losing funding for his academy.