BBC News Online, the Daily Mail the Independent, the Evening Standard, the Guardian and ITV News report that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn apologised for antisemitism in the Labour Party ahead of a crunch meeting with Jewish community leaders. Corbyn said his party had “not done enough” to tackle the issue and admitted the Labour’s methods of dealing with anti-Jewish abuse were “not fully fit for purpose”. Jewish people “deserve an apology,” he said, adding that he was “sorry for the hurt and distressed caused”. Jewish leaders said the meeting was a “disappointing, missed opportunity”. The Jewish Leadership Council and Board of Deputies of British Jews said the Labour leader did not agree to any of the concrete actions they asked for. These included stronger personal leadership, a swift resolution of party disciplinary cases such as that of Ken Livingstone, and Labour adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. None of this had been achieved, Jewish Leadership Council Chair Jonathan Goldstein and Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush said after a two-hour meeting with Corbyn and others from the Labour party, including the general secretary, Jennie Formby. “Words in letters and newspaper articles will never be enough,” they said. “We welcome the fact that Mr Corbyn’s words have changed, but it is action by which the Jewish community will judge him and the Labour party.”

The Telegraph, the Guardian and BBC News Online report on the consequences of US President Donald Trump tearing up the Iran nuclear deal. With the 12 May deadline looming, both America’s European allies and Iranian adversaries are scrambling to persuade Trump not to pull the plug on the deal. Iran has threatened to withdraw from the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) in the clearest indication of how it will react should Trump pull the US out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran could leave the NPT nearly half a century after it signed if it decided the treaty no longer served its interests. BBC News Online, the Telegraph, the Times, Politico.eu the Independent, the Financial Times and the Spectator report Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have suggested there could be a new agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme. After talks in the US, Trump, who is sceptical of an accord that was struck in 2015, spoke about “doing a much bigger… deal”. Macron said a new pact must cover Iran’s ballistic missile programme and its role in the Middle East.

The Financial Times reports that a house price boom in West Bank settlements is driven by a growing belief among Israelis that most of the settlements that dot the West Bank, especially those closest to Jerusalem, such as Efrat, are de facto permanent. The price of an average four-room apartment in the main settlements has jumped 60 per cent in the past decade.

BBC News Online, the Independent and the Daily Mail via AFP report that Israel has scrapped a plan to forcibly deport tens of thousands of illegal African migrants. In a written response to the country’s Supreme Court, the government said that the forced removal of the migrants “is no longer on the agenda”. However, Israel’s immigration authorities are still seeking ways to deport migrants voluntarily, it said. The fate of Israel’s roughly 30,000 illegal African migrants has become a hugely contentious issue. The supreme court previously suspended a plan to expel the migrants – mostly from Eritrea and Sudan – unless they voluntarily accepted a cash lump sum and a plane ticket out of the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then cancelled a UN deal to resettle the migrants in Western nations.

The Telegraph reports that Britain and the West should put pressure on Iran to rein in Hezbollah’s presence in southern Lebanon in order to avoid a “new major war” between the militant group and the Israeli military, the former head of the British army has warned.  Lord Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff, said the West had no coherent strategy to deter Hezbollah’s military buildup in Lebanon and as a result was risking a sudden eruption of conflict “either by accident or by design”.  “In the absence of a concerted international effort to rein in Iran in the region – and no such coherent Western strategy currently exists – we must be prepared to expect Israel to defend its vital security interests robustly,” Lord Dannatt writes in the Telegraph. Lord Dannatt spoke ahead of the launch of a new report on the prospects of an Israel-Hezbollah war compiled by the High-Level Military Group (HLMG), a group of former senior Western military officers.

The Daily Mail via AP reports that when the Stars and Stripes is hoisted over the new US Embassy in Jerusalem next month it will be a physical milestone in a broader, striking shift by the Trump administration away from a half-century of traditional US policy toward Israel and the Palestinians. For decades, even amid close US-Israeli ties, Washington has tried to position itself as a neutral party in the vexing Mideast conflict, willing to call out both sides when they take steps seen as contrary to the pursuit of peace. Yet the expected 14 May move of the Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will be just the latest in a series of steps the administration has taken that have delighted Israelis and angered and alienated the Palestinians.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that his country would attack Russian S-300 air defence systems in Syria if they were used against Israeli targets. His remarks came a day after the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that Moscow could soon start to deliver S-300 systems to its ally Damascus, and cited a source as warning of “catastrophic” consequences if they were attacked. “What’s important to us is that the defensive weapons the Russians are giving Syria won’t be used against us,” Lieberman told YNet. “If they’re used against us, we’ll act against them.”

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that victims of attacks in Israel cannot use an 18th-century law to sue the Arab Bank, a multinational financial institution, the US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a precedent-setting case for other foreign businesses. The decision rests on a legal provision almost 230 years old. Plaintiffs accused the Jordan-based bank of facilitating transfers to Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip and which Israel and the US labels as a terrorist group. A majority of five conservative judges on the top US court outnumbered four others who dissented.

BBC News Online reports that a letter written by Hitler’s favourite composer Richard Wagner warning about “corrosive” Jewish influence on culture has been auctioned in Jerusalem. The letter sold for $34,000 (£24,000). In the April 1869 letter, the antisemitic composer tells French philosopher Edouard Schuré that the French know “very little” about Jews.

BBC World Service produced a segment on the Oslo Accords. Mona Juul, Norway’s Ambassador to the UK, spoke to the BBC World Service’s Witness programme about being part of the team that planned and orchestrated the secret meetings that culminated in the signing of the peace agreement.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that analysts fear a wider Middle Eastern war is brewing between Iran and its rivals, Israel and Saudi Arabia, warning that their failure to understand each other’s intentions threatens to tear the region apart. The Middle East is mired in what the International Crisis Group calls a dangerous “gap in perceptions that has locked Iran and its rivals in an escalatory spiral of proxy fights that is destroying the region”.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Israeli forces demolished the West Bank house of a Palestinian accused of involvement in the killing of a settler in January, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. Ahmed Qunba’s home in Jenin in the northern West Bank was destroyed in a controlled explosion, Palestinian security sources said. They added that demonstrators clashed with Israeli forces at the scene. The Israeli army said in a statement that Qunba was part of the cell that shot dead Rabbi Raziel Shevah near Nablus in the northern West Bank.

All the Israeli media report from the meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump. Maariv reports that Macron wants a new agreement with Iran. Haaretz quotes officials from Iran who said that if the US withdraws from the Nuclear Agreement, they would too. Israel Hayom reports comments by Trump that if Iran threatens America, it will pay a price like few countries have ever paid.

Maariv reports that the Labor Party Convention supported Party Chairman Avi Gabbay proposal to separation from the Palestinians on the basis of a two-state solution. “While the Likud Central Committee annexes, we commit here to the two-state solution with a clear commitment to separate from the Palestinians. A secure Jewish and democratic state alongside a demilitarised Palestinian state, while preserving the Jewish majority.”

Israel Hayom and Haaretz report on the cancellation of the forced deportation plan of African migrants, adding that Saharonim and Holot detention facilities are due to be re-opened. Maariv quotes comments from residents of Southern Tel Aviv who say that they feel “betrayed” by the State.

Kan Radio News reports that Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, met in Sochi with senior officials from Israel and Iran to discuss the escalation in Syria. According to a report by Russian television channel RT, Patrushev met separately with Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and with Eitan Ben-David, Israel’s deputy national security adviser.

Yediot Ahronot reports that Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman left last night for the US, where he will meet Secretary of Defence James Mattis and National Security Advisor John Bolton. He is expected to discuss the Iranian expansion in the Middle East and the situation in Syria.

The Jerusalem Post reports that seven individuals of African origin were sentenced by a criminal court in Algeria for “spying for a foreign power [Israel], and forming a criminal gang in the country”.

Haaretz reports that work has begun on a new neighbourhood in East Jerusalem for former defence establishment employees, adjacent to the neighbourhood of Armon Hanatziv. The land for the project, which is to include 180 residential units, was expropriated in the 1970s from residents of Sur Baher, an Arab neighbourhood that is also adjacent to the site.

Israel Hayom reports on a split in Hamas over an Egyptian initiative to end Gaza border protests. The paper claims that a deep rift has formed within the Hamas leadership between Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar and Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh surrounding the ongoing Gaza border demonstrations and riots. It happened after Haniyeh snubbed Egyptian efforts to discuss a possible prisoner swap deal with Israel and an easing of the blockade on Gaza in exchange for a cessation of the border demonstrations.