BBC News Online, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times and the Daily Mail via AP report that Jordan’s Prime Minister Hani Mulki resigned after days of protests against tax rises and austerity measures. The recent demonstrations in the country, which is a key Western ally, are the biggest in years. Protesters chanted anti-government slogans and clashed with police, who fired tear gas and blocked roads. The demonstrators say a new tax bill backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hurt the poor and middle class. The protests continued for four consecutive nights. Police say dozens of people were detained and more than 40 members of the security forces were injured. Mukli’s government said it needed the money to fund public services and said the new tax bill would mean higher earners pay more. After accepting Mulki’s letter of resignation at a meeting on Monday, King Abdullah of Jordan asked Omar al-Razzaz, a former World Bank economist and Minister of Education, to form a new administration.

BBC News Online, the Independent and the Financial Times report that Iran is to inform the United Nations’ nuclear agency that it is beginning the process of increasing its capacity to enrich uranium and produce uranium hexafluoride, a key ingredient for enrichment. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, said he had ordered preparations for enrichment, should the 2015 nuclear deal fail completely. US President Donald Trump pulled America out of the deal last month. It is not yet known whether European countries will keep the deal afloat.

The Financial Times reports that Peugeot owner PSA has become the latest French company to signal it will pull out of Iran if it cannot get bulletproof protection from potential US sanctions. The French carmaker said it had begun to suspend its joint ventures in Iran and will look for a waiver protecting it from US sanctions.

The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Times, the Independent and the Daily Express report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has embarked on a three-day trip to Europe to push leaders in Germany, France and Britain away from the Iran nuclear deal and convince them of the need to dislodge Tehran’s military from neighbouring Syria. Netanyahu has signalled a desire to keep talks focused. “I will meet there with three leaders and will discuss two subjects: Iran and Iran,” he said at the airport ahead of his trip on Monday. Netanyahu’s visit to Berlin is the first of a series of meetings with European leaders this week in which he is trying to persuade them to isolate Tehran. As part of those efforts Israel, which wants Britain and its European partners to follow Washington’s lead and tear up a nuclear deal with Iran, says it is sharing secret files showing Tehran’s determination to build a bomb. The Times reports that Netanyahu warned of a new wave of Muslim refugees from the Middle East and raised the spectre of a second Holocaust as he sought to win Germany around to tougher measures against Iran. He called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate his claims to have discovered proof of Iran’s efforts to build a nuclear weapon. His mission was also to drum up support from Germany to repel Iranian forces from Syria and curb its rocket programme.

The Daily Mail reports that an axe-wielding Palestinian was shot dead trying to breach the Gaza-Israel border on Monday. The Israeli army said the troops thwarted an “infiltration attempt” by “two terrorists who damaged the security fence and were armed with an axe,” the army said in a statement. Soldiers ‘fired towards the terrorists, killing one of them,’ it added. The army circulated a picture of what it said was the axe lying on the ground near the border. The second Palestinian, who was with the man, fled after they damaged Israel’s security fence, a military spokesman said.

The Guardian reports that the Saudi government gave White House aides large suitcases containing jewellery worth tens of thousands of dollars, according to a new memoir by Barack Obama’s speechwriter and former Deputy National Security adviser Ben Rhodes. After landing in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 Rhodes writes, US officials were taken by golf cart to “identical housing units amid the rolling desert”, in a compound owned by the monarchy. “When I opened the door to my unit, I found a large suitcase,” he writes. “Inside were jewels.”

The Telegraph reports that Saudi Arabia on Monday began issuing its first driving licences to women in decades, authorities said, just weeks before the historic lifting of the conservative kingdom’s ban on female motorists. Ten Saudi women swapped their foreign licences for Saudi ones in multiple cities, including the capital Riyadh, as the Kingdom prepares to end its ban on 24 June . The move, which follows a government crackdown on women activists, is part of a much-publicised liberalisation drive launched by powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he seeks to modernise the Kingdom.

ITV News reports that Israel has announced plans to deduct from tax funds it collects for the Palestinians to compensate Israelis living near the Gaza Strip who have fallen victim to a wave of arson attacks. The country has been battling fires caused by kites rigged with incendiary devices or attached to burning rags launched by Palestinians in Gaza that have damaged forests and torched agricultural fields. The fires have disrupted daily life in communities near the Gaza Strip.

The Sun reports that Israel has unveiled top secret files it claims prove Iran is trying to secretly build a nuclear bomb, it has been reported. It will now use the explosive “evidence” to pile pressure on the UK and its European partners to tear up the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. One document is said to be a 2001 memo handing responsibility for the production of weapons-grade enriched uranium to Iran’s defence chiefs. It was one of 100,000 files seized from a Tehran warehouse by agents of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. The documents will now be made available to the security services of Britain, France and Germany ahead of this week’s European visit by Netanyahu.

The Times reports that the grandson of Israel’s most influential Rabbi of recent years has married his male partner, scandalising the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel. Ovadia Cohen’s grandfather was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who served as Israel’s Chief Rabbi and was widely regarded as the most influential rabbi of orthodox and traditional Mizrahi, or Oriental Jews from Arab countries. Rabbi Yosef wrote books on Jewish law and declared gays “evil”. He died in 2013. Cohen, who is orthodox, and divorced from a woman, married his partner, Amichai Landsmann, on Friday in a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony in Haifa. None of his family attended.

The Daily Mail reports that Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is taking a break from defending the president from Robert Mueller’s investigators to attend a high-level conference in Israel on real estate investment. Giuliani, the former New York Mayor, is an “important guest” at the Globes’ Capital Market Conference in Tel Aviv, which will feature top investors and predictions about which way the U.S. real estate market is going.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that a controversial Arab Israeli former legislator who fled his homeland over a decade ago, Azmi Bishara is now among the key diplomatic players in the crisis that estranges Qatar from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. Once a Knesset black sheep over his pro-Palestinian stance, Bishara left Israel in 2007, accused of advising Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, a charge he denied. A former Marxist and founder of Balad, an Arab Israeli political party, Bishara has since reinvented himself as an Arab public intellectual, close to Qatar’s circles of power. Bishara is a major personality in Qatari media and has a Twitter following of more than 1.4 million. Critics of the 61-year-old Christian from Nazareth accuse him of permanently shifting alliances; politics that have seen him labelled a supporter of “terrorism”, along with his host Qatar.

The Daily Express reports that Israel has arrested, shot and imposed fines of over $28,100 (£21,100) on Palestine children, according to a new report as tensions in the region continue to skyrocket. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs stated the hefty bills have been imposed on minors detained in Ofer prison near the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank.

Haaretz reports that the IDF is bracing for the resumption of demonstrations on the Gaza border with Maariv reporting that the Israeli assessment is that Hamas will focus its efforts on organising large-scale border demonstrations in Gaza on Friday, which is the last Friday in Ramadan. Channel Ten News reports that the IDF is deployed in advance of Naksa Day, the day commemorating the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The IDF has deployed large numbers of troops along the Gaza Strip border fence, and Iron Dome anti-missile batteries are also deployed in the event of rocket and mortar shell fire on Israel.

Maariv and Kan Radio News report that Netanyahu said Israel is examining ways to prevent the Gaza Strip’s collapse. In a briefing to reporters accompanying him on his trip to Europe, before leaving Berlin for Paris, he said that Israel was doing more than any other country to prevent a humanitarian collapse in the Gaza Strip adding that the crisis in Gaza was caused by PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to cut the flow of money to Gaza and because Hamas spent its money on tunnels.

Yesterday Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid charged the government with an absence of a policy on Gaza: “The Israeli government has no policy for Gaza. Ever since 2014, back when I was still a Security Cabinet member, I have been pushing for an orderly policy. If the government has a different suggestion, we’d be glad to hear. Currently Netanyahu has no policy for Gaza except to wait for the next round.” MK Tzipi Livni of the Zionist Union also commented on the situation at a party meeting, saying: “The Prime Minister is ignoring the residents of the Gaza periphery and the Gaza problem as if he only has to say Iran, then we won’t talk about it and Gaza will disappear. When facing Gaza he is a vision-less prime minister who is shackled to a flawed preconception.”

Yediot Ahronoth focuses on the firefighters who are battling against the incendiary kites being flown out of Gaza. The wave of fires continued yesterday with a fire in the Beeri Forest, already damaged by previous fires, as well as the area of the Sderot train station, which led to the suspension of the Ashkelon-Netivot line.

Israel Hayom quotes German Chancellor Angela Merkel who said that Germany will take steps to remove Iran from Syria.

Kan Radio News reports that Israeli officials believe that crippling sanctions on Iran are likely to destabilise the regime, and cite the escalating demonstrations and protests there. Senior officials said that there was disagreement within the Iranian leadership on Iranian foreign policy and on the actions taken by Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force in our region.