The Independent, Daily Mail via AFP and Daily Mail via AP report that Israel will legalise an isolated outpost in the West Bank in response to the murder of one of its residents in a Palestinian shooting last month. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision to retroactively authorise the 50-family outpost of Havat Gilad was designed to “allow the continuation of normal life there”. The announcement comes a month after Rabbi Raziel Shevah,  was shot dead from a passing vehicle as he drove near his home in the settlement of Havat Gilad near the Palestinian city of Nablus. The Israeli military is still searching the area for suspects.

The Independent, Daily Mail via AFP and Daily Mail via AP report that Israeli authorities have begun distributing deportation notices to thousands of African refugees and migrants, who have been threatened with jail if they do not leave the country. In letters delivered on Sunday, the Government told asylum-seekers they had 60 days to leave for an unnamed African country in exchange for $3,500 (£2,500) and a plane ticket. The deportation plan has sparked outrage in Israel, where groups of pilots, doctors, writers, rabbis and Holocaust survivors have appealed to have it halted. They say the deportations are unethical and would damage Israel’s image as a refuge for Jewish migrants.

The Independent reports that Israeli authorities on Sunday tore down two EU-funded classrooms that were part of a school for Bedouins in the West Bank. Israeli authorities say such demolitions carry out court rulings against unauthorised building by Palestinians. It was the fifth time the school has been demolished since 2016, Palestinian officials said. “The building was built illegally and without the necessary permits. In addition, the enforcement was approved by the Supreme Court,” said a statement from Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).

The Daily Mail covers reports that Israel has joined forces with Egypt’s military to smash ISIS militants in Nothern Sinai. Unmarked Israeli drones, helicopters and jets have carried out a covert air campaign to rid Egypt of Islamic terrorists, for more than two years. Around 100 airstrikes have been executed in the country, with often more than one a week. Israeli assistance in the region has helped Cairo regain a footing in the battle against extremism, reports the New York Times.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that the military trial of a Palestinian teenager charged after a viral video showed her hitting two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank has been delayed until 13 February, officials said Sunday. Ahed Tamimi, had been due to stand trial on January 31 along with her mother Nariman before the case was postponed until 6 February. It is now set for 13 February, her lawyer and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said.

Yahoo News UK via AFP reports that King Abdullah II of Jordan said in an interview aired Sunday that the United States remains essential to any hope of a peaceful solution between Israel and the Palestinians, despite widespread criticism of the administration’s new US stance on Jerusalem. “We cannot have a peace process or a peace solution without the role of the United States,” the monarch said on the CNN program Fareed Zakaria GPS, in an interview taped at the recent economic summit in Davos, Switzerland. He said this was true even after President Donald Trump decided to move the US embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

The Times republished a report from their archive on a unit of Jewish soldiers returning to London from training during the First World War. The legion included Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky whose idea of a separate unit for Jews took the form of the Zionist Mule Corps in Egypt and received a commission in the “Judeans”, as the regiment was popularly called.

The Daily Mail reports according to new research by Israeli scientists from Tel Aviv University say patriarchal men often have problems forming loving relationships. According to the research, this is because they constantly feel the need to defend their manhood, have anxiety issues and find it difficult to trust females. Researchers surveyed 108 heterosexual Israeli men for the study, which showed that those who held patriarchal views were often those that felt the most anxious.

The Financial Times reports that a suspected chlorine gas attack hit Syria’s rebel-held province of Idlib a day after an al-Qaeda offshoot claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian fighter jet. Rescue workers known as the White Helmets said six civilians and three of their volunteers had been wounded, suffering suffocation and choking, but there were no reported deaths. The Times  and the Guardian report that Russian politicians claim that the loss of the Russian jet to rebel fire over Syria was caused by a shoulder-fired missile supplied by the US or an ally. Russia responded with a strike that it said killed 30 “terrorists” on land controlled by the former al-Nusra group from where the plane was hit. One MP in Moscow said that Syrian special forces had been dispatched to the region to find remains of the launcher.

The Times reports that Turkey has warned the US that its troops in Syria are at risk of attack if they remain among Kurdish fighters. American soldiers are stationed in the strategically important town of Manbij in the northwest and could face a confrontation with Turkish troops should Turkey, a fellow member of NATO, carry out its threat to push deeper into the country. The Guardian reported that seven Turkish soldiers have been killed in an offensive against Kurdish militia in Syria, including five who died in a single attack on a tank according to Turkey’s army.

Yediot Ahronot, Haaretz  and Maariv prominently report comments yesterday by Chief of Staff Lt Gen. Gadi Eisenkot in a meeting with government ministers.  Maariv notes him making the distinction between efforts to halt the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the long term rehabilitation projects, which he said could only move ahead after Hamas returns the bodies of IDF soldiers. Yediot Ahronot, meanwhile, focused on his latest thoughts on the service of women in the IDF.  According to Eisenkot he is “neither a feminist nor a chauvinist” but argued it’s important to strike a balance.  As much as he supports the integration of women into some units he has no intention in drafting them into frontline infantry units like the Golani and Paratrooper brigades.

All the Israeli media prominently report the police recommendation to indict Minister of Labour & Social Affairs Haim Katz of the Likud on charges of fraud and extortion.  The allegations are from before he became a member of Knesset and are part of the corruption investigation at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).  The investigation covered a number of cases involving a large number of people, some of whom were questioned under caution. These included Katz and his son, IAI workers’ committee chairperson Ehud Nof, workers’ committee member Eli Cohen,  IAI director Brigadier General (res.) Amal Assad, and other suspects.

Maariv reports the cabinet unanimously agreed to legalise the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad, the home of Rabbi Raziel Shevah, who was murdered in a shooting attack last month. It was decided that the defence minister would be given the authority to examine the establishment of a new settlement for the residents of Havat Gilad, as some of the land on which the outpost is built today is on private Palestinian land, some of the residents will have to move.

Maariv highlights reports from Arab media, that Hezbollah has recently purchased land in the Druze-majority Shuf Mountain region of Lebanon so that Iran could build missile factories there.  Yediot Ahronot includes a warning from Transport and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz that Lebanon would go back to “the Stone Age” and maybe even to “the age of cavemen” if it turned into an Iranian factory of precision-guided weapons. Katz said: “We have worked to prevent this from happening in Syria through Iranian weapon smuggling, and we are now making it clear that we won’t allow Iran to build factories for the production of precision-guided missiles or for the conversion of missiles on Lebanese soil. This has been clarified in talks with Russia too, and certainly with the United States and other European countries, as messages aimed at preventing a war and a conflict we have no interest in. We are making our red line clear.”

Yediot Ahronot follows up on the decision to expel African immigrants and its reporter spoke to people standing in line at the offices of the Population and Immigration Authority. The majority of them said that they would prefer to go to prison than be sent to Rwanda.  For contrast, the paper also includes another article, highlighting another cabinet decision yesterday, to bring in 6,000 foreign workers for the construction industry.  Haaretz also reflects on demonstrations against the expulsion of African and reports on Prime Minister Netanyahu telling Likud ministers, , “George Soros is also funding the protests. Obama deported two million infiltrators and they didn’t say anything.” A spokesperson for Soros denied the claim.  Netanyahu was responding to a comment by Likud minister Ofir Akunis, who said that recent protestors were extreme leftists, and funded by European countries.