The Independent reports that Israel is “doing everything they can” with the Trump administration to suppress the publication of a UN blacklist of companies operating in West Bank settlements.

BBC News Online and the Mail Online both report on Israeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman’s resignation from the Cabinet. Litzman, a member of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, resigned in protest at railway maintenance being carried out on the Sabbath.

The Times reports that Israel has offered Rwanda US$5,000 for every failed refugee the country takes back. Israel is home to roughly 39,000 Africans who entered the country illegally between 2006 and 2012. The government regards them as economic migrants and has refused to grant them residency permits. Refugees from Africa have been largely unable to enter Israel after a 5 metre-high steel border fence was erected between Israel and Egypt in 2013.

BBC Online reports that the first delivery of food aid has arrived at Yemeni ports after the Saudi-led coalition eased its blockade of the country.

The Guardian features an editorial on the Sinai attack, noting that the incident “marks a dramatic escalation in the threat from Islamist radicalism in the peninsula” and that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s vow of “brute force” will not solve the crisis.

BBC News Online reports that at least 53 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes in the east Syrian village of Al-Shafah, the UK based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have claimed.

The Times reports that Iran claims it has “new evidence” against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Iranian state television claims that Tehran has evidence Zaghari-Ratcliffe was training Iranian journalists in 2010.

The Times reports that jihadists were able to evade security checkpoints on Friday to carry out the worst terrorist attack in Egyptian history despite having issued a warning a week earlier that a Sinai mosque would be targeted.

The FT reports that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has pledged to rid the world of Islamist terrorism while launching a military alliance that critics fear will deepen the rift between the kingdom and its arch-rival Iran.

All the Israeli media discuss the issues of religion and state. Maariv argues that the coalition crisis stemmed from genuine theological concerns. The article says: “Principles still have a role to play in the political arena. Proving one’s loyalty to the rebbe has remained important, and a show of independence on a central religious issue is a matter of values. That is the core message that Health Minister Yaakov Litzman gave when he decided to resign from the cabinet in response to the maintenance work that was carried out by the Israel Railways on the Sabbath”. In Yediot Ahronot Yoaz Hendel compares the agreement to a religious version of US TV sitcom Seinfeld, writing that “the crisis ended last night without results. The succinct summary was full of words but devoid of content. The ultra-Orthodox discovered that they live in a secular state in which state institutions violate the Sabbath on a regular basis; [Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers looked at the polling numbers and were reminded of the limits of political power; and the Sabbath? The Sabbath long ago grew accustomed to people who speak in its name”.

In the wake of the averted coalition crisis, Channel 10 news carried a poll which shows that if elections were held today Yesh Atid would increase its strength and be level with the Likud, receiving 24 seats each. The Zionist Union came in third with 17 seats, Jewish Home with 12, the Joint Arab list with 11, and Kulanu with 9. Meretz received 7 seats, the same as United Torah Judaism and Yisrael Beiteinu’s 5. Shas’s seats go down to 4.

Yediot Ahronot reports that the first ever female tank combat recruits have finished their training and will now be deployed along Israel’s southern border.  This is an experimental deployment of just three tank crews.

Maariv reports on mixed-gender units in the IDF. Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot has rejected appeals from national-religious rabbis to allow officers the option of refusing to serve in a mixed-gender battalion.

Maariv reports that Jordan is looking for clarification over the partnership with Israel in the Red-Dead sea canal project. Jordan’s Water Minister Hazim el-Nasser informed Israel they want an answer by the end of the year. It is understood the two countries are holding secret talks over the future of the partnership in the project. Israel has suggested that it may delay the first phase of the project or withdraw from it altogether if Jordan keeps refusing to reopen the Israeli embassy in Amman. Jordan has made the reopening of the embassy conditional upon the investigation of the security officer who shot two Jordanian civilians earlier this year.

Israel Hayom looks back nostalgically on the UN partition plan vote of 29 November 1947, reflecting on a country gripped by the vote over the radio and the celebrations that ensued afterwards. It will be the 70^th anniversary later this week.

Kan radio news report hundreds of ultra-orthodox from the Jerusalem faction protested last night in Jerusalem over the arrest of young people who refused to go to the draft office to receive an exemption from military service. They blocked the entrance to the city and stopped the light rail from running. The police used water cannons to disperse them and arrested 36 of them. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat asked Commander of the Jerusalem District Police Yoram Halevy to be particularly aggressive against illegal protests in the capital.