The Telegraph and the online edition of the Financial Times both report an announcement by Israel’s former-Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who said that he intends to run for the country’s leadership in the next elections. It was unclear whether he intends to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Likud Party leadership or whether he intends to form his own party.

However, in a speech yesterday at the Herzliya Security Conference, Ya’alon sharply criticised Netanyahu after disagreements between the two precipitated Ya’alon’s resignation several weeks ago.

The Times and Guardian both cover new revelations over what is considered to be excessive spending by Netanyahu at the expense of Israel’s taxpayer. A freedom of information request has revealed that Netanyahu and his wife’s five-day trip to New York last year for the United Nations’ General Assembly cost around £382,000, including significant amounts for hair and make-up. Netanyahu has been criticised before for apparent excess, and is also facing allegations of receiving illicit campaign funds from a French millionaire and questions over historic travel expenses.

Writing in the Guardian, Giles Fraser criticises Israel’s treatment of African migrants. Tens of thousands have arrived in Israel during the past ten years, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan. Few have been granted refugee status and most live in relatively poor areas of south Tel Aviv. Fraser says that Israel “of all places” should have greater respect for such migrants and “have a softer heart.”

The Times reports that Hamas’ most senior leader, Political Bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, will stand down and not contend the terror group’s internal elections later in the year. Mashaal, who is based in Doha, has seen his power wane since Hamas violently took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007. The article predicts that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Ismael Haniyeh, will succeed Mashaal.

Writing in the i, Robert Fisk contends that the Iran nuclear deal with the P5+1 powers (US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) is “turning to dust,” because Western companies are scared to do business with Iran for fear of breaching ongoing US sanctions rules.

In the Israeli media, Moshe Ya’alon’s speech yesterday, alongside an attack at the same conference by former-Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership, is the main item. It is the top story in Haaretz, Yediot Ahronot and Maariv, which leads with the headline “Attack of the generals.” Israel Hayom highlights the response by Likud officials, who accused Ya’alon in particular of saying the opposite of what he did in office.

Commenting in Yediot Ahronot, Nahum Barnea said: “Be the personal motives of both of them [Ya’alon and Barak] what they may, that is not the point. The two speeches were born out of a certain sense, a sense of emergency, which is coming to the fore in many places in Israel.” He concludes: “Barak and Ya’alon are just the tip of the iceberg.”

Another significant story in Maariv is the ongoing military case against a soldier who controversially shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank city of Hebron earlier this year. The terrorist had attempted to stab troops before being shot and wounded. However, a camera caught Elor Azaria shooting the assailant dead, when he appeared to no longer pose a threat. Yesterday, his commander said that Azaria told him “the terrorist must die.”

Meanwhile, Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Israel Hayom all prominently cover the killing yesterday of Labour MP Jo Cox. Yediot Ahronot calls it “the murder that is rocking Britain”.