The Financial Times reports that Donald Trump and his team’s “Israel-first rhetoric” is leaving Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “politically exposed”. The report says that Trump’s indications of tolerance for Israeli settlement building and pledge to relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem have exposed Netanyahu “to attack from where he is most vulnerable: the far right”.

The Times, Telegraph, Sun and Daily Mail all cover an announcement by Development Secretary Priti Patel that a £25m programme to finance the Palestinian Authority (PA) will continue to operate, but with new guidelines. It follows claims that some of the money was being used by the PA to pay terrorists and their families. None of the money will now be used to pay PA employees in Gaza, with the “focus solely on vital health and education services”.

The i covers statistics released by the Israel Academy of Sciences, which say that 3,240 Israeli researchers and scientists living abroad have registered to return to Israel, stemming the country’s “brain drain”.

The Times and Guardian both report that Asher Avidan, the number two to Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz, has been arrested by Israeli police and placed under house arrest. Steinmetz is being questioned by Israeli police on suspicion of bribing government officials in Guinea over mining rights in the country.

The Independent and the online edition of The Telegraph both report that the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey all met yesterday in Moscow, to discuss a “roadmap” to peace talks in Syria. The i says that the three countries have conflicting stances though on whether Hezbollah and other Islamist groups should be involved in the process or not.

The Telegraph online reports that four Jordanian policemen were killed yesterday in Karak, just two days after ten people were killed in an attack on the city’s castle, which was subsequently claimed by ISIS.

The Independent and i both cover comments made by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who said that Britain has “always been the source of threats, corruption and misery” in the region.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Maariv and Israel Hayom, which is also covered prominently in Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz, is the news that an Israeli woman is still missing in Berlin, following Sunday’s attack on a Christmas market in the German capital. Israel’s consular staff in Berlin have scoured the city’s hospitals and mortuaries in an attempt to locate the woman, whose husband is in hospital with serious injuries.

The ongoing accusations against Joint Arab List MK Basel Ghattas are featured prominently in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Haaretz. Ghattas was questioned yesterday by police, before being released under certain conditions. He is said to have smuggled mobile phones and encrypted messages to Palestinian security prisoners, but claims that his visits to them were purely “humanitarian”. Haaretz says that police believe the evidence against Ghattas is solid and that they are waiting for his parliamentary immunity to be stripped before proceeding. Maariv reports that the Knesset House Committee adopted a request from Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan to stop MKs from visiting security prisoners, in light of the Ghattas case.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Ednaki Sebhat Haimowitz and Esther Tafta Gard were yesterday appointed as Israel’s first two female judges from the Ethiopian community, at a ceremony for new judicial appointments at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.

The top story in Yediot Ahronot is a report on the details from a conversation between Prime Minister Netanyahu and residents of Amona, the West Bank outpost facing court-ordered evacuation. According to the report, Amona representatives were “stunned” to hear Netanyahu say on Saturday night: “‎I understand what it is to lose a home. After the elections in ’99 [‎in which Netanyahu lost to Ehud Barak], with zero warning, they simply evicted me and my family from the residence on Balfour Street. Just like that, with all our belongings, we were simply tossed out into the street. We were forced to sleep at the Sheraton Plaza. It’‎s an awful feeling.”