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Media Summary

The BBC and Reuters report on our main story, that Israel and Sudan are finalising a deal to normalise relations, with a signing ceremony expected following a transfer of power from the military to a civilian government in Khartoum. 

The BBC, Sky News, Reuters and The Guardian report that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has criticised Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank as an obstacle to peace.

The BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, ITV, The Mirror and Sky News all report on the incident on Friday night, when a gunman shot and killed seven people outside a synagogue in a settlement north of Jerusalem in the deadliest attack on Israeli citizens in the region since 2008.

The Telegraph reports that Isaac Herzog has warned that the country is on the brink of an “internal struggle” that could “consume us all” over the government’s controversial legal reforms.

The BBC and The Guardian report that an estimated 100,000 people took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday night in what protesters described as a “fight for Israel’s destiny” over sweeping judicial changes proposed by the new far-right government. 

The Financial Times, The BBC,The Times and The Guardian report on our main story, that Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Aryeh Deri, a key coalition partner of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cannot serve as a minister because of a recent conviction for tax fraud.