BBC News Online published a series of seven photos marking Israel’s 70 years of independence. Photos cover topics such as Palestinian refugees, Adolf Eichmann’s trial, the Six-Day War, the raid on Entebbe, the Oslo Accords and the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Daily Mail via AP reports that Israelis commemorate the 70 year milestone this week while “satisfaction and a grim disquiet share the stage”. The Daily Mail via AP report that Israel marked its annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism on Tuesday with sombre ceremonies and a one-minute siren that brought the country to a solemn standstill. Sirens wailed at 8 p.m. across the country, prompting Israelis to stop in their tracks and stand silently with heads bowed to remember the dead. Another siren will ring out on Wednesday morning.

The Times, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail report that Israel released satellite images yesterday of Iranian bases in Syria, a clear warning to its old enemy as both are drawn deeper into the Syrian conflict. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it believed that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was planning to attack Israel in the coming days in retaliation for its strike on an Iranian drone base in Syria in the early hours of 9 April in which seven Iranians died. Intelligence officers say that the attack could come tomorrow, to coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary celebrations. The release of the satellite images was intended to signal to Iran that Israel knows the location of its elite expeditionary Quds Force bases in Syria and stands ready to strike. The Times published a column by its Middle East correspondent Richard Spencer which argues that the “West’s airstrikes on Syria are a side-show” and that “Israel v Iran is next phase of war”. The Times also published a column by Diplomatic Editor Roger Boyes that argues that “the shadow boxing between Israel and Iran has come into the open” and also makes the case that Israel and Iranian conflict could be the next phase of conflict in the Middle East.

The London Evening Standard reports that a “controversial” Israeli defence and security firm, whose products include electronic stun-guns and anti-drone tech, is working up plans to float in London. Tel Aviv-based Avnon Group is understood to be working with advisers Stifel over plans to launch on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) later this year, potentially putting a price tag of up to £200m on the company, according to City sources. The company, which supplies equipment and training to the Israeli government as well as international customers, was set up by Tomer Avnon in 1990.

The Times, the Independent and the Guardian report that Labour’s antisemitism row intensified yesterday as three of the party’s Jewish MPs received standing ovations in the Commons after attacking its handling of the issue. Jewish leaders also said they would not attend a meeting next week with Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn after it emerged that a hard-left group which denies that Labour has a problem with antisemitism had also been invited. In an emotionally charged debate, Labour backbenchers lined up to highlight the growth of antisemitism claims under Corbyn’s leadership. Almost two-thirds of the British public believe Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party has a problem with racism or religious prejudice, a new poll has revealed. An exclusive survey for the Independent found 61 per cent of people thought Labour had an issue, with Ukip the only other party receiving a comparable score. The Times also reported that a Labour council candidate who heads a left-wing Jewish group has said that Jews are “often agents” of exploitation. Leah Levane is a co-chairwoman of Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL), the group invited by Jeremy Corbyn to the round-table discussion next week.

The Financial Times published a column by David Gardner which argues that the Iran deal may be at risk due to John Bolton’s extremism.

The Telegraph, the Guardian and BBC News Online report that according to Syrian sources, officials from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will visit the site of an alleged chemical attack on Wednesday if the UN says it is safe to do so. OPCW experts have been in Damascus since Saturday. A UN security team visited on Tuesday, Syrian permanent representative Bashar Jaafari told the UN Security Council. US and French officials have raised concerns that Russia might have tampered with evidence.

The Financial Times, the Times, the Independent and Sky News reports that Theresa May has won a further parliamentary victory over the UK’s involvement in air strikes on Syria, after a significant number of Labour MPs declined to endorse the stance of their leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn, who opposed the strikes, had called for a new law requiring the government to have parliamentary approval before launching military action.That principle of Commons consent emerged as a constitutional convention after the Iraq war, but it is not binding and nor is it clear in what circumstances it applies. May argued that Syria would have been more likely to shoot down western missiles if it had known that the US, UK and France were focusing Saturday’s attacks narrowly on chemical weapons. MPs voted 317 to 256 against Corbyn’s proposal on Tuesday, with around 50 Labour MPs abstaining. No Conservatives or Democratic Unionist MPs voted against the government, despite some Tory backbenchers including the former chancellor Ken Clarke, having misgivings about May’s refusal to recall parliament before the air strikes.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that the head of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas said Tuesday it was ready to negotiate with Israel to trade two Israeli captives and the bodies of two soldiers it is holding. “We in Hamas are ready to start negotiations to achieve a deal through a third party mediator,” Ismail Haniya said in a speech marking the Palestinians’ annual Prisoners’ Day.

The Daily Mail via AP reports that a Polish nationalist group asked prosecutors in their country Tuesday to investigate whether Israel’s President broke a law that criminalises falsely blaming Poland for the Holocaust crimes of Nazi Germany. The National Movement said it thinks Israeli President Reuven Rivlin might have violated the new Holocaust speech law during a visit to Auschwitz last week. At issue in the group’s complaint are comments in which Rivlin reportedly told Polish President Andrzej Duda that Poland allowed the implementation of Germany’s genocide, National Movement Vice President Krzysztof Bosak said.

The Daily Mail via AP reports that a North Carolina city council voted Monday to prohibit its police department from engaging in international exchanges with agencies whose officers receive military-style training. News outlets report the Durham City Council voted 6-0 for a policy that resulted from a petition by a coalition of groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace, seeking a ban on any partnership the department might enter into with Israeli defense forces or the Israel police. Proponents say Israeli tactics promote racial bias and police militarisation.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that hundreds of Druze in the Golan Heights marched Tuesday in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Syrian independence day and in protest over Western airstrikes against suspected chemical weapons sites. An AFP journalist said that more than 500 people waving Syrian flags and carrying portraits of Assad took part in the rally in the village of Ein Qiniye, about 16km from the Syrian-controlled part of the Heights. They chanted: “Bashar defeated the terrorists” and “Bashar beat the American bombers,” referring to US-led strikes over the weekend in which British and French forces participated.

The Daily Mail has published a video produced by the IDF which shows that they have thwarted an offensive terror tunnel belonging to the Hamas terror organization that infiltrated Israeli territory from northern Gaza near Nahal Oz.

All the Israeli media is dominated by a focus on Memorial Day and tomorrow’s Independence Day.

Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz report on the alternative memorial ceremony that took place in the Ganei Yehoshua Park in Tel Aviv last night which was organised by the Parents Circle-Families Forum and Combatants for Peace.

David Grossman, whose son Uri was killed in the Second Lebanon War spoke at the ceremony and with Yediot Ahronot published the speech in its entirety. Grossman began by saying, “There has been a lot of noise and commotion surrounding our ceremony, but we do not forget that more than anything, this is a ceremony of memory and communing. The noise, even if it is present, is outside us now, because at the heart of this evening there is a profound quiet, the quiet of the void created by loss.” He added: “I believe that bereavement makes us, those who came here this evening, more clear-sighted people. Clear-sighted, for example, with regard to the limits of force, with regard to the illusion that always accompanies the one who wields the force.” Grossman also announced that he would donate half of the money he is due to receive for the Israel Prize, which he will receive tomorrow, to the Parents Circle-Families Forum and to Elifelet, an organization that cares for the children of asylum seekers.

Maariv and Haaretz report that growing tension with Iran is casting a shadow over the 70^th Year festivities and that Israeli Fighter Planes will not participate in an international exercise in Alaska. Ma’ariv writes that anticipating retaliation, the IDF has exposed Iranian military deployment in Syria. The article also quotes a senior official in the Syrian army who said yesterday that airports in Syria had not been attacked on Monday night adding that Syrian air-defence systems had been activated as a result of a “false alarm.” He claimed that the misfire by the Syrian air-defence systems had been caused by a “joint cyber-attack by Israel and the United States on the Syrian radar system.”  Haaretz also covers this story, reporting that “a commander in the regional military alliance that backs the Syrian government attributed the malfunction to ‘a joint electronic attack’ by Israel and the United States targeting the Syrian radar system.”

In an opinion piece in Ma’ariv, Yossi Melman criticises the high-ranking IDF officer who confirmed to Tom Friedman that the IAF had attacked the T4 base in Syria. “By so doing, Israel ostensibly departed from its policy of ambiguity, and this was interpreted as sticking a finger in the Iranians’ eye. Tehran, in response, escalated its threats to take revenge.” Melman also questions whether the gain of publishing aerial photos of Iranian airfields and bases in Syria was outweighed by its loss. “The message that Israel seeks to convey to the Iranians is: Beware, don’t take action against us. You are transparent. We know almost everything about you. Conversely, doesn’t the damage of disclosing secret intelligence outweigh the benefit derived from its exposure?”

Maariv publishes a poll in which 81 per cent of Israelis say that the country is a good place to live in.