In The Guardian online, Peter Beaumont speculates on the potential impact of Donald Trump’s presidency on the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, describing it as “serious and retrograde”. He says that Trump is likely to take either an approach which is popular with Israel’s right-wing or to largely refrain from involvement with the conflict as a whole, labelling both “maximalist and minimalist positions” as equally damaging.

The Financial Times reports that Israeli company Magal is “quietly positioning” itself for business, should Trump decide to fulfil his pledge to construct a wall along the border with Mexico.

The Daily Express, Metro and Daily Star all report that 18 arrests have been made in Kosovo, with a further six in Albania and Macedonia, after three ISIS terrorist plots were uncovered, including an attack on Israel’s national football team, which played in Albania last weekend. The venue of the World Cup qualifier was eventually moved by Albanian authorities over security concerns.

The Financial Times reports that Avriel Bar-Yosef, who was named by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his preferred choice as National Security Adviser, has been arrested on suspicion of corruption. Bar-Yosef withdrew his candidacy for the senior position in July.

The Sun and i both report on the sale of the oldest known tablet inscription of the Ten Commandments, sold for £683,000 at a Beverly Hills auction. The tablet was discovered in 1913 during the construction of a train station in Israel, with the i describing the artefact as a “national treasure”.

The Telegraph online reports that hospitals in the Syrian city of Aleppo are running out of medicine, with around 100,000 children under siege from the Syrian army.

In the Israeli media there are two major stories. Yediot Ahronot, Israel Hayom and Haaretz focus on the controversial Israeli government deal to purchase three advanced submarines from Germany. A Channel Ten report earlier this week said that the purchase was opposed by military and defence officials, but that the agreement was influenced by the business interests of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s lawyer, who worked on the deal. Israel Hayom emphasises Netanyahu’s insistence that the purchase was based solely on military requirements, while Israel Radio news reports comments by then-Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon who said that he vehemently opposed the deal.

Writing in Yediot Ahronot, Nahum Barnea links the affair to Netanyahu’s strategy to invest large sums of money to prepare for a potential strike against Iran’s nuclear programme. He says: “it appears that the Iranian nuclear program is costing us much more than it costs Iran.”

The other major story, which leads in Maariv and is covered prominently in Yediot Ahronot, are leaked details of the latest draft report by the State Comptroller into the Government’s handling of the Hamas tunnel threat in Gaza. A final version of the much-anticipated report is said to have been sent to the relevant parties this week. Reports say that it is highly critical of Netanyahu and Ya’alon, indicating that they failed to share intelligence on the issue with the security cabinet ahead of Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

Commenting in Maariv, Ben Caspit says: “The picture that is painted is of an army and intelligence community that gathers valuable and rare information, but that this information does not even make it to the members of the security cabinet.”

Haaretz reports this morning that Netanyahu is expected to be questioned under caution over unspecified acts of corruption. The report claims that “investigators from the Israel Police National Fraud Squad will soon visit the Prime Minister’s Residence to interview Netanyahu”.