The Independent reports the terrorist drive-by shooting near the Tekoa Junction in Gush Etzion yesterday, in which an Israeli man was seriously wounded and his two daughters lightly injured by flying debris. The man was treated by Magen David Adom emergency medical personnel for a gunshot wound to the upper body before being evacuated to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in serious but stable condition.

The Guardian and The Times report on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s release from hospital yesterday, after treatment for apparent dehydration amid Israel’s heatwave over the weekend. The Sheba medical centre confirmed after tests that Netanyahu’s heart was in “excellent condition”, and a heart monitoring device had been implanted “for the sake of routine monitoring”. The Metro runs a video message from Netanyahu assuring Israelis that he was feeling well and urged compatriots to stay hydrated and out of the sun during the hot weather.

Reuters runs a piece from Gaza, claiming that the “Strip’s Hamas rulers have been unable to pay salaries for 50,000 public sector workers, with officials in part blaming a delay in a monthly payroll grant from Qatar, a crucial aid donor to the impoverished Palestinian enclave.” The article further reveals that “the salary crisis has sparked an unusual amount of criticism on social media in Gaza, including by some of Hamas’ own employees,” and quotes official Awni Al-Basha telling Hamas Aqsa radio: “The government is going through a stifling and escalating financial crisis, with a continuous increase in the deficit month after month, which led to the delay of salaries this month.”

There is wide Israeli media coverage of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant’s meeting yesterday evening with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi  and the directors of the IDF Operations Directorate, the Military Intelligence Directorate, and the Personnel Directorate, as well as the commanders of the Israel Navy and the Israel Air Force, to discuss the threat of reservists refusing to volunteer to serve in protest against the government’s judicial reforms. Israel Hayom suggests that officers told Gallant that only a small number of reservists have formally announced that they have stopped voluntary reserve service, and that the IDF’s operational ability has not been seriously affected.

In contrast, Ronen Bergman in Yediot Ahronot argues that this picture is skewed by the IDF refraining from formally issuing binding call-up orders to reservists who have said they will not comply. “That allowed the IDF to say this past weekend without lying that ‘incidents of reservists not reporting for service are isolated and very restricted,” writes Bergman. “The IDF played with its definitions and numbers so as to allow itself to say that there isn’t any problem—certainly not at present—and that everything is under control. That has allowed it to refrain from clashing directly with the reservists; it also helped top security brass avoid being dressed down by Netanyahu, who reprimanded them last time for failing to prevent ‘refusal,’ to use his word, in the military. Under the current definition, there isn’t any refusal and there isn’t any risk of Netanyahu lambasting the chief of staff and his senior officers.”

Haaretz’s Amos Harel, summarising the issue – and yesterday’s meeting – writes that “According to senior officers, the harm is already being felt and potential damage to the operational capabilities of the IDF in general and the Israel Air Force in particular must be taken into consideration… Halevi has recently presented, including to the inner cabinet, what he called the red line: The number of reserve pilots and navigators whose discontinued service would lead to severe damage to the IAF’s combat readiness. That number is in the several hundreds, with the precise figure censored for publication. The IDF says that such damage has yet to materialize, as most pilots considering ending their volunteer service have yet to do so, but the military is aware that reality can change rapidly…”

On the same theme, Ynet reports a former deputy commander of IDF Unit 8200 writing of his own refusal plans in a chat group of military veterans. In comments also printed by The New York Times over the weekend, ‘Col. K’ wrote: “Yesterday there was a report about a high-ranking officer in Unit 8200 who informed his unity commander that he was suspending his voluntary reserve service. For anyone who doesn’t know, I am that ‘high-ranking’ [officer]… I’ll admit that my hands trembled when I wrote the message, but I came to the conclusion that now is the time to take action.”

With much of the protest movement’s current focus on the seemingly imminent passage of the bill limiting the Supreme Court’s use of the grounds of reasonability, Maariv covers the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee’s final deliberations on the bill yesterday. During the discussion, Prof. Yuval Elbashan, a legal expert involved in efforts to achieve a compromise between the government’s programme and the opposition, said of the bill: “This wording is not good.” Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon, meanwhile, said, “The amendments that were added only make the problems we spoke about earlier worse.” In response, committee chair and reform architect Simcha Rothman said, “The information received by the committee today… serves only to strengthen the need for this law. We are legislating something I feel is a correction to a years-long injustice… we’re not going to play games by ourselves and table bills that don’t reflect our worldview, even if that is what academics and members of the opposition would like.” Per Army Radio, Committee will begin to discuss and vote this morning on objections to sections of the grounds of reasonability bill that were submitted by committee MKs, in a process expected to last several days. Opposition MKs have submitted roughly 27,000 objections to sections of the bill with the goal of postponing a final vote on the bill by the Knesset plenum.

Haaretz looks ahead to another planned day of protest against the reforms tomorrow, with demonstrators likely to target train stations for the first time. Protests are also planned at the headquarters of the Histadrut labour union, in a bid to persuade its Chairman, Arnon Bar-David, to call a general strike. Maariv details police preparations, with thousands of officers set to deploy at around 150 locations.

Ynet covers the weekend’s developments on the tensions between Israel and Lebanon on the northern border. On Saturday, a group including a member of the Lebanese parliament and journalists crossed into Israel in the area of Mount Dov. IDF troops fired warning shots in response. This followed an earlier incident last week, an IDF surveillance camera was removed when Hezbollah activists climbed an Israeli military tower on the border. Yediot Ahronot reveals that it took five hours before IDF troops discovered the theft.

I24 News reports Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen’s attendance at the latest meeting of the African Union taking place in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Israel enjoys observer status at the Union and Cohen was invited by Kenyan President William Ruto and Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua. “The diplomatic visit to Nairobi is of regional and strategic importance against the backdrop of Iran’s attempts to expand its influence on the continent,” Cohen said.