The Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Telegraph and Daily Express all report a big setback for the SpaceX project, a private initiative which aims to bring the internet to sub-Saharan Africa via a satellite. In a dress rehearsal launch yesterday in Florida, the Falcon 9 rocket exploded. It was set to carry an Israeli-produced Amos 6 communications satellite, on behalf of Spacecom, a communications satellite operator in Israel.

The Guardian online says that the Czech Foreign Ministry has instructed a local publisher to alter its educational maps, which are distributed to Czech schools, to replace Jerusalem as Israel’s capital with Tel Aviv. The move comes after the issue was raised by local members of the Palestinian community.

The Times reports that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has defended his paid appearances on the Iranian-government controlled media outlet Press TV by saying that he used the opportunity to address “human rights issues”. The article notes that the last of Corbyn’s Press TV appearances came six months after Ofcom, the communications regulator, revoked Press TV’s licence following airing of an interview with an imprisoned journalist conducted under duress. The article also says that footage shows Corbyn did not challenge contributors for calling the BBC “Zionist liars” and Israel a “disease”.

The Guardian, Evening Standard and i all report that British Airways yesterday resumed direct flights to Iran’s capital Tehran for the first time since 2012. It will operate six weekly flights.

The Guardian online says that the Obama Administration has denied claims by a Washington think tank that a joint-commission set up to implement last year’s nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers (US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) allowed Tehran to keep more than the agreed maximum of 300kg of low enriched uranium. The allegations were made by the Institute for Science and International Security, headed by former-United Nations’ weapons inspector David Albright.

In the Israeli media, Maariv and Israel Hayom both lead with the explosion yesterday of the Space X rocket during a test launch in Florida. The explosion is described by Israel Radio news as likely to cause significant damage to the Israeli space industry. It also calls into question the scheduled sale of Israeli satellite communications company Spacecom, which owns Amos 6, to a Chinese company for hundreds of millions of pounds.

The top story in Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot is an agreement the government has reached with ultra-Orthodox political parties that scheduled maintenance work on Israel’s railways will not be carried out over the Jewish Sabbath this week as planned. The issue caused significant strain in the coalition last week and a committee was established to determine what constitutes “vital” work. As a result, trains which were scheduled to run late Friday and Saturday, before and after the Sabbath will be cancelled. Yediot Ahronot’s headline says that the decision is “disregarding the soldiers,” many of whom travel to and from base during these hours.

Meanwhile, both Yediot Ahronot and Israel Radio news report that Israel Police Commissioner, Roni Alsheich, has issued an apology to the Ethiopian-Israeli community and anyone that he insulted in public remarks earlier this week. He had said that it was “natural” for police officers to be more suspicious of Ethiopian-Israelis as “studies worldwide show greater criminal activity in immigrant communities”. Alsheich claimed that he was not endorsing the position, rather raising the issue in order to combat it.