The Guardian reports the furious reaction of Israeli politicians to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s comments that, in contrast to Syrian President al-Assad, Hitler did not use poison gas on his own people; a statement that ignores the murder of German Jews and others in gas chambers. Yisrael Katz tweeted that Spicer’s statement was “severe and outrageous”. Israel’s Holocaust remembrance centre Yad Vashem stated that Spicer’s comments “imply a profound lack of knowledge”. The Daily Mail reports that amidst calls for his resignation, Spicer issued an apology on CNN.

The Daily Telegraph reports that former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied to be a candidate in the Iranian presidential election despite recommendations from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei that he should not stand.

The Times features an article stressing the need to address the ideological revisionism of Ken Livingstone (on Zionism and Hitler) and Marine le Pen (on French complicity in the Holocaust).

The Guardian features an article exploring the biographies of “homegrown” Jihadi terrorists, finding them to be “violent nihilists who adopt Islam, rather than religious fundamentalists who turn to violence”.

All the Israeli media reports the on-going search for three missing people swept out to deep water in the Sea of Galilee yesterday amid turbulent weather.  Maariv fears for the lives of the three young men who were swept deep into the Sea of Galilee, all of the papers show similar concern.

Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom both take a swipe at Haaretz  and their columnist Yossi Klein who wrote in an article that the “national-religious are more dangerous than Hezbollah, more than drivers who run people over, or girls with scissors. The Arabs can be neutralised, they cannot”.   According to Israel Radio Prime Minister Netanyahu responded with a statement to the effect that the article was shameful and outrageous, and called upon Haaretz to apologise. Opposition Chairman Yitzhak Herzog said that we are sick of generalisations and that the article was worthy of condemnation. MK Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid said that the text against religious Zionism in Haaretz was virulently anti-Semitic.

Yediot Ahronot criticises Prime Minister Netanyahu for his silence silence after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s comment that, “even Hitler didn’t sink to using chemical weapons”,  Noting that the government would usually respond to controversial comments made abroad.  Meanwhile, Israel Hayom prominently covers Spicer’s apology.

Maariv suggests that despite the tension, aerial coordination between US and Russia over the Syrian airspace will resume.

Haaretz report on comments made by French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron who broke with his government’s policy and said unilaterally recognising Palestine “would not serve anyone” and claimed the move would “create instability.”

Yediot Ahronot follow the efforts of the family of Rahavam Zeevi to establish an appropriate memorial for the Israeli government minister who was assassinated in 2001 during the second intifada.  The family had wanted the site at Shaar Hagai in the Jerusalem hills but this site was claimed by veterans who fought to break the siege of Jerusalem in 1948.  The new plan is for a memorial site for Zeevi the Jordan Valley.