The Guardian online covers the controversy in Israel after two female aides to members of the Knesset were denied entry into the parliament building for wearing what officials regarded as “short” dresses. The Knesset recently reiterated its dress code and indicated that it would be more tightly enforced. However, Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli, whose aide was one of those briefly denied entry, accused the Knesset management of deploying “modesty police”.

Writing in the Financial Times, David Gardner says that “Tehran is the real victor in the battle for Aleppo,” with the key Syrian city poised to fall into the hands of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. He says that Aleppo’s fall will enable Iran to “establish a client territory from Baghdad to Beirut”. Martin Chulov provides a similar assessment in the Guardian, saying that with the “fight for Aleppo almost at an end,” al-Assad’s backers are “circling for the spoils” and that Iran wants to “reinforce Damascus as a bridgehead for Hezbollah”. In the Sun, Professor Mark Almond from Oxford University says that the “turning point” of Aleppo will result in “a more powerful Iran aiding Hezbollah with better weapons against Israel”.

The Financial Times reports that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has called on the country’s atomic energy organisation to start “designing and constructing a nuclear propulsion system to be used in marine transportation,” after claiming that the US had violated the terms under the Iran nuclear agreement. It is unclear whether Rouhani was referring to ships, submarines or both.

The i covers a poll conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, which indicates that 65 per cent of Palestinians (a 9 per cent increase on the previous year) no longer believe in the two-state solution.

The Daily Mail includes a feature on a British woman who lost a significant portion of her savings to binary options firms, which the article notes typically “slip through the net because they are often based in Israel and Cyprus”.

The Daily Express reports on a new Tel Aviv University study which indicates that when people use their right hand and look at their left, that the left hand becomes more efficient, belying the phrase that “the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing”.

In the Israeli media, Haaretz leads with the imminent fall of Aleppo to President al-Assad’s forces, focusing on the atrocities which are being committed against the city’s civilian population. It is also a major item in Maariv and Yediot Ahronot, which includes the headline “Aleppo cries out”.

A major story in Maariv is a report which claims that the Defence Ministry opposes the Regulation Bill, which if it becomes law, it would retroactively legalise a number of West Bank homes that are built on private Palestinian land. The report says the Defence Ministry’s legal team has advised in a secret forum that passing such a law would leave Israel vulnerable to prosecution at the International Criminal Court.

Israel Radio news reports that hundreds of people demonstrated last night outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, in support of the residents of Amona. The West Bank outpost faces a court-ordered eviction later this month and it remains unclear where the residents will then be housed.

Another Israel Radio news item covers the demands by Zionist Union MK Erel Margalit and attorney Eldad Yaniv that the Attorney General instruct the police to open an investigation over what has become known as the “submarine affair,” in which it is suspected that Israel’s purchase of German submarines was influenced by the business interests of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s lawyer.

The top story in Israel Hayom and Maariv is the severe storms which struck parts of Israel yesterday. A man in his seventies died of hypothermia when his car got stuck in a flooded tunnel in Haifa.