The Times, Independent and the online edition of the Guardian cover a bus bomb which exploded n the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam yesterday. The Guardian says that some Israeli leaders have spoken out following revelations that the United States’ National Security Agency spied on Israeli leaders while in office, in particular former-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former-Defence Minister Ehud Barak.   The Times includes a feature on a potentially volatile dispute over Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount site in Jerusalem, which is also the al-Aqsa mosque compound. Israel currently does not allow Jews to pray publicly at the site, citing Muslim sensibilities, but there are increasingly vocal calls to permit Jewish prayer there.

The online editions of the Guardian and the Times report that Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the Syrian regime must answer for the death of British doctor Abbas Khan, who died in Syrian custody last week in suspicious circumstances after having entered the country on a humanitarian mission. The Daily Express says that Home Secretary Teresa May will remove citizenship from British jihadists who go to fight in Syria, following studies indicating larger numbers of British fighters in Syria than previously thought. The Times online reports that the United Nations says a Syrian refugee baby is born every hour. Meanwhile, the Independent online says that in Syria itself, government aircraft bombed residential areas of Aleppo, killing at least 44 people.

The online editions of the Guardian, Telegraph and Financial Times cover the conviction and imprisonment in an Egyptian court of three secular opposition leaders for organising an unauthorised protest, increasing fears of a crackdown by the country’s military rulers on all opposition, not only the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the Financial Times, Roula Khalaf argues that the more reform-minded elements of Iran’s political leadership need nuclear talks with the international community to succeed or else Tehran’s hardliners will be strengthened.

In the Israeli media this morning, all dailies lead with the bus bomb which exploded yesterday in Bat Yam and the actions of a passenger and bus driver which averted a major disaster. Yediot Ahronot’s headline is “Terror on bus number 240,” while Israel Hayom, Makor Rishon and Haaretz focus on the vigilance of the driver and passenger. Maariv says that checkpoints have been set up across southern Israel to catch the perpetrators. Writing in Maariv, Amir Rapaport says that yesterday’s attack is linked to the recent rise in violence in the West Bank, but calls the bombing “amateurish.”

Israel Hayom also highlights the revelations that the United States spied on Israeli leaders, contrasting it with the harsh punishment meted out by the US to Jonathan Pollard. The headline says that Israeli ministers have told the US “Enough with the hypocrisy; release Pollard.” In Maariv, commentator Ben-Dror Yemini argues that the time has come for the United States to release Pollard.

Meanwhile, Makor Rishon continues to cover weekend reports that US Secretary of State John Kerry will present a framework agreement to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) within the next few days. However, Israel Radio news reports that senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has said that Israeli and PA negotiating teams have not met directly for several weeks and are instead working through US intermediaries.