The Times reports on the controversy in Israel after the Prime Minister’s attack on a senior journalist whose programme portrayed a chaotic, paranoid atmosphere within Netanyahu’s office and suggested that his wife influences high-level decisions. The report describes Netanyahu’s response as a “three-page tirade” against the presenter Ilana Dayan that prompted opponents such as the Zionist Union to accuse Netanyahu of “incitement”. The report notes that the programme coincided with Government proposals to prevent the launch of a new public broadcasting corporation, and describes the Prime Minister as “fixated on the media since the 1990s”.

The Guardian includes a feature on the new Yasser Arafat Museum that recently opened in Ramallah, close to the muqata compound where the former Palestinian Authority President was confined for much of the end of his life. The museum depicts Arafat’s personal story and that of the Palestinian people. The report states that the museum has opened at a time when the Fatah faction, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian people  “have never appeared more divided”.

The online editions of the Guardian, Times and Independent cover reports that Moscow threatened “large-scale” strikes including cruise missiles on the Syrian city of Aleppo, reportedly to coincide with the US elections.

The Financial Times says that French energy company Total has finalised a deal with Iran to develop part of the giant South Pars gas field, and that Tehran is eager to follow it up with further agreements with significant Western companies.

In the Israeli media, the newspapers are dominated by the US election. With print deadlines ahead of the unfolding results, the front page headlines in both Yediot Ahronot and Maariv ask “Ms President or Mr President?”

Writing in Maariv, Shlomo Shamir concludes that whoever the next US president is, the election will likely expose a Jewish American vote increasingly out of step with Israel’s government over relations with the White House. He says: “If Clinton should indeed win, most of the American Jews will celebrate.  In political Jerusalem, which favours the Republicans, people will turn up their nose, and more than a few will grieve… If Donald Trump wins—the great majority of the community will respond with loathing, and some will go into mourning.  But top government officials in Israel will sing and dance with joy.” However, Barak Ravid of Haaretz writes that Netanyahu will be concerned about a Trump Presidency as Clinton was more expected and comfortable for him whereas Trump represents totally uncharted waters.

In domestic news, the fallout from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s criticism of Ilana Dayan continues to be a major story in Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom. Culture Minister Miri Regev strongly supported Netanyahu’s comments via social media, Yediot Ahronot quotes an unnamed Likud minister who said “freedom of speech and freedom of the press have to be preserved in a democratic country, and this style is reminiscent of regimes we wouldn’t want to resemble,” and another unnamed Likud figure saying, “It was very disturbing. It looks like a witch hunt”.

Haaretz and Israel Hayom also report that the venue for this weekend’s World Cup qualifier between Israel and Albania has been moved after Israeli security officials described a “credible” ISIS threat to attack the Israeli football team. Albanian officials have moved the venue to a more secure location.