The Times and The Independent mention in passing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Trump on Wednesday this week.

An opinion piece in The Guardian notes the growth of Israeli settlements surrounding Jerusalem, and discusses the history of Israel-Palestinian negotiations over land with a Palestinian cartographer. The article concludes that in the event of future armed conflict, blame will lie with the hawks of Israel’s political right and world leaders who failed to stop illegal Israeli settlement building.

The BBC reports that Israel has stated that former Peruvian leader and fugitive Alejandro Toledo would not be able to enter the country until “his affairs in Peru are settled”.

The Mail Online notes that French far right candidate Marine Le Pen’s father has been charged with inciting racial hatred after making a joke about ‘Jews dying in Nazi ovens’.

The BBC also reports that a Roman Catholic Church at Tabgha in Israel has been reopened after being badly damaged by an arson attack by Jewish extremists in 2015.

The Israeli media focuses on Prime Minister’s upcoming meeting with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday and describes Netanyahu being under intense pressure from the right wing of his party and coalition to adopt position in support of settlement expansion and against the establishment of a Palestinian state. Israel Hayom publishes an interview with President Trump in which he says that settlements do not help the peace process but that the Palestinians will also have to make concessions.

An article in Yediot Ahronoth suggests that the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem will indeed come up in the meeting but the administration has decided to postpone the decision at least until May due in part to messages from the Israeli government and following a conversation between Trump and King Abdullah of Jordan. The Prime Minister’s Bureau refused to comment on the matter.

Also in Yediot Ahronoth, Nahum Barnea offers what he describes as a “conspiracy theory” about Netanyahu and Trump, whose administration has begun to move away from positions that are supported by the more extreme Israeli right wing due requests from Netanyahu himself. In Maariv, right wing commentator Nadav Haetzni muses that “it could be that Netanyahu is no longer on the same page with his constituency and his senior officials… If that is the case, the prime minister will face the Trump test this week, and his real views will be laid bare. It will finally become clear whether he is still a leader of the “national camp” or whether this camp also needs to seek another leader.

In other news, the Times of Israel and Yediot Ahronot feature the story that 14 people were held in a major corruption investigation in the Israeli city of Kfar Saba. The Times of Israel also reports that the former Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, who is accused of corruption charges has been refused entry to Israel.

An interview on Channel 2, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu should not have to resign from office if an indictment is filed against him.  Yediot Ahronoth reports on comments by the Ultra-Orthodox deputy mayor of Jerusalem Yitzhak Pindrus, who publically criticised Ultra-Orthodox youths who attacked an Ultra-Orthodox soldier last week.

Haaretz reports comments made by President Rivlin in which he is heavily critical of the Regulation Law passed last week by the Knesset. The paper also publishes an international poll in which Israel was voted the third best country in the world to raise children.