Reuters has reported that Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday for the first face-to-face talks between leaders of the U.S.-allied nations since 2008.

Reuters reports that Israel said on Tuesday it would fight a plan by online travel agency Booking.com to add a safety warning to listings in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which its tourism minister condemned as a politically motivated decision.

Israel and Bahrain have begun negotiating a free trade agreement, Reuters has reported. Israel normalised diplomatic relations with Bahrain and its Gulf neighbour the United Arab Emirates (UAE) two years ago under U.S. sponsorship. While economic ties with the UAE has since taken off, Israel’s trade with Bahrain has lagged far behind.

Reuters has also reported that Israel is considering closing old copper networks and transferring all communications services to newer fibre optics infrastructure. The communications minister Yoaz Hendel is already looking at shutting down copper networks and wants telecom providers and the public to weigh in and give their opinions by Nov. 24.

The Guardian reports that Israeli archaeologists have discovered opium residue in 3,500-year-old pottery pieces, providing evidence to support the theory that the hallucinogenic drug was used in ancient burial rituals.

All the Israeli media lead with the murder of 85-year-old Shlomit Ovadia, who was beaten to death on the street in Holon. Visiting the scene, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai described the incident as “a very serious terror attack.” The suspect was later found dead in Tel Aviv.

Tension remains high in the West Bank, Kan Radio reports that there were clashes again in Nablus last night between Palestinian security organisations and young people and sounds of shots were heard. Palestinian media outlets reported that the protest against the PA is spreading to other areas of the West Bank, including the Ramallah area. Kan Radio played a recorded message that Hamas relayed to armed groups in Nablus and Jenin calling on them to attack the offices and prisons of the PA and to release all the security and political prisoners. Channel 12 news reports that after severe clashes in the last few days in Nablus an agreement has now been reached between the local liaison committee and the PA. They agreed that a solution would be found for the situation of Musab Shtayyeh, the member of Hamas’s military wing who is wanted by Israel and who was arrested by PA security organizations. According to the reports from Nablus, the sides will discuss the Shtayyeh issue until a solution is found. It was also decided to release all the Palestinians who were arrested in the last two days during the riots, aside from those who were arrested for breaking into and stealing from stores. Shtayyeh’s arrest was made after Israel asked the PA to take action and prevent a security escalation, following several terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers. According to reports, Shtayyeh was close to the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades who was killed by the IDF a few weeks ago in Nablus’s Old City.

Commenting in Yediot Ahronot, Amos Gilad and Michael Milshtein warn that the true strategic warning is not the rise in violence—whether it is being carried out by aimless young people, members of the PA or Hamas—but rather the steady progress toward a reality of one state, a scenario that is liable to be created even if this is unplanned or unwanted. On the Palestinian side, there is growing support for the idea, which is viewed as a means of obtaining civilian rights and in the future, perhaps even realizing national aspirations if and when they become a demographic majority between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. This is a topic in the Israeli conversation but is not sufficiently perceived and understood—because with every day that passes, we come closer to the point of no return, which will make a physical separation in the future difficult. Gilad and Milstein argue that with a month to go until the election, it is essential to pose these questions and put them at the center of the debate and to demand that the politicians give clear answers, without resorting to slogans. Any government that is elected will have to realize that it must place the Palestinian issue at the top of its agenda. Time does not let us continue to maintain the current situation by economic means or by such cosmetics as “managing the conflict,” and it will compel the decision-makers to formulate an orderly long-term strategy—and mainly, prepare to make historic decisions, decisions that the founding fathers excelled in, and which have not been made for two decades.

Israel Hayom reports that Iran uses the facilities of CERS, the Syrian arms industry, to build missiles. This activity is done in secret and hidden from CERS officials and is not coordinated with the Syrian government. CERS is Syria’s national military industry, responsible for producing a variety of weapons – from missiles to rockets of different kinds, weapons for the ground army and for the air force (and such low-tech items as vests and helmets), to chemical weapons. It has installations throughout Syria, the central one being Section 4, responsible for building missiles and rockets. In the past, Iran produced these missiles itself but the series of Israel Air Force strikes caused it to change policy and transfer production to Syria. They are mainly built in Masyaf in northern Syria, which this past year has become the main target for IAF strikes. As a result, the Iranians have launched an ambitious project to move the equipment to underground sites in Masyaf, to protect them. Israel has since made it clear that it will continue its strikes, even at the price of casualties and extensive damage.

In election news Maariv reports the Labour Party launched its election campaign yesterday with a celebratory event at the Tel Aviv Port featuring candidates on the party’s election slate. Chairwoman Merav Michaeli promised that the party would push to pass the defendant’s bill in the next Knesset. “We will act to get the defendant’s bill passed in order to ensure that a person who has been indicted for serious criminal offenses cannot serve as prime minister. We’ll act to double the period of moral turpitude so a person who has been convicted cannot be elected to Knesset or serve as government minister for 15 years,” she added. She also promised the party would raise the minimum wage, begin operating public transportation on the Sabbath, amend the nation state law, work to build public housing, push for civil marriage, legislate state-funded end-of-life care and raise pension payments to the elderly to NIS 3,000. On diplomacy, Michaeli said “in order to ensure the security of the State of Israel and in order to ensure its existence and future, Israel must reach an agreement to solve the Israel-Palestinian conflict. We must fight terror without taking any shortcuts while at the same time search for any path to dialogue and a peace agreement—two states for two peoples. Without a two-state solution we will remain one country for two peoples, and that will be the end of the State of Israel as we know it. We cannot allow that to happen. The next government must restart talks and stop hiding behind empty words like ‘managing the conflict’ or ‘reducing the conflict.’”

Maariv also reports that the Movement for Quality Government asked the chairman of the Central Elections Committee, to use the committee’s authority to declare Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri unfit to serve as government minister due to the mark of moral turpitude on him as a result of his repeated criminal indictments and conviction.