The Daily Mail covers a debate in the House of Commons yesterday on foreign aid, in which some MPs raised serious concerns over the £156.4 million grant given by the Department for International Development to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Although the funds are earmarked for state-building within the PA, critics say that it frees up money for the PA to make payments to terrorists, who have committed violent acts against Israelis. Conservative MP Eric Pickles said that there is a “knock-on effect” and that effectively UK taxpayers’ money is helping to reward terror. Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, Joan Ryan MP, also highlighted a “perverse sliding scale” in which the PA increases its payments to terrorists in tandem with the seriousness of the offence, concluding that they “actually incentivise people to commit the most terrible acts of violence”.

The Telegraph reports that the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee will sit today to discuss anti-Semitism in Britain. Among those who will appear before the committee are former-London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who will reportedly demand his reinstatement in the Labour Party and deny that any problem of anti-Semitism exists within the party. Livingstone was recently suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation, following an outcry after he suggested that Hitler was a Zionist.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Israel Hayom, Haaretz and Maariv is the continued aftermath of Sunday’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which killed at least fifty people. Maariv highlights further comments made by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told his cabinet yesterday that “This terror threatens the entire world and it is necessary, first of all, that the enlightened countries urgently unite to fight it.”

Meanwhile, Yediot Ahronot says that Israel and Turkey are on the verge of renewing diplomatic ties, following a six-year hiatus after ten Turkish citizens were killed whilst trying to prevent Israeli commandos taking over a Gaza-bound protest ship, the Mavi Marmara in 2010. The two countries have held several rounds of talks over the past several months, including in London. The report also suggests that Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman promised that he would not oppose the normalization talks with Turkey as a condition of entering office, having previously voiced objection to the process.

Both Haaretz and Israel Radio news prominently report that Knesset members will shortly be permitted once again to visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a site which is holy to both Jews and Muslims. For the past eight months, such visits have been banned for both Muslim and Jewish MKs, for fear that they could spark violence. However, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein is apparently planning to reverse the decision, with the approval of security forces, to initially allow Muslim MKs to visit the Temple Mount during Ramadan. Should quiet be maintained, Jewish MKs will then be permitted to visit the site.

Meanwhile, Israel Radio news also reports that clashes took place last night between Israeli residents in the West Bank and Israeli security forces, who demolished a building in the outpost of Givat Gal.