The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, i, Sun, Metro and Daily Mirror cover yesterday’s meeting between Prime Minister Theresa May and her Israeli counterpart Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London. The papers focus on Netanyahu’s call for the UK to follow the example of the US and impose new sanctions on Iran. However, May’s spokeswoman emphasised that the UK will continue to support the Iranian nuclear deal. The Daily Star and Daily Mail point out that May was keen to promote a post-Brexit trade deal with Israel during yesterday’s meeting.

An editorial in the Telegraph, titled “Israel is a vital ally,” describes Israel as “the region’s only truly democratic nation” and “a beacon of stability” in an otherwise turbulent region. It argues that the government may have disagreements with Israel on issues such as West Bank settlements, but “the far greater priority must be to reassure the Israeli people” over Iranian military and regional ambitions.

A similar editorial in the Daily Express, titled “UK must support Israel,” says Netanyahu is correct to raise concerns over Iran, which is “committed to the destruction of his country” and that he “should be able to call on our support”.

In an analysis of yesterday’s meeting between the two prime ministers, the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland says that both May and Netanyahu are keen to have US President Donald Trump on their side, albeit for different reasons. However, he predicts that “Trump may end up disappointing both of them”. In the i, Patrick Cockburn says that “real change is unlikely” under the Trump administration regarding the Middle East.

The Times and the online editions of the Guardian and Financial Times report that the Knesset last night voted in favour of the controversial Regulation Bill by a vote of 60 in favour and 52 against. The legislation retroactively hands residents the right to live in West Bank outposts which were built on private Palestinian land either unknowingly or with government assistant. The Guardian online notes that the new law is likely to face an immediate court challenge.

The Times, Sun and i include a photo of an explosion in the Gaza Strip yesterday, after Israeli jets struck several Hamas positions in response to a rocket fired into southern Israel yesterday morning. There were no reports of deaths or serious injuries on either side.

The Financial Times, Telegraph, Times and Evening Standard report that North Sea oil explorer Ithaca has agreed a £963m takeover by Israeli company Delek.

The Independent and the online editions of the Guardian, Times, Telegraph and Financial Times cover an Amnesty International report which claims that as many as 13,000 opponents of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad were secretly hanged in a notorious Syrian prison over a five-year period.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot, Haaretz and Israel Hayom is the passage of the Regulation Bill last night in the Knesset. The headline in Yediot Ahronot is “Regulation Law passes, High Court of Justice next,” underscoring the expectation of an immediate legal challenge to the legislation.

Writing in Maariv, Yossi Melman warns: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman know that the law is the small step that will push Israel into the abyss of a state that no longer respects international law.” Also in Maariv, Karni Eldad predicts that “if the High Court of Justice tries to destroy the Regulation law — ‎it will get sovereignty,” with right-wing leaders prepared to propose further legislation to formally annex Area C of the West Bank.

The top story in Maariv is yesterday’s exchange of fire in and around the Gaza Strip. An anonymous high-ranking military official told Israel Radio that Israel does not seek an escalation, but had to respond strongly to yesterday’s rocket fire in order to make clear that it won’t tolerate a violation of the 2014 cease-fire agreement, even if the attack was carried out by rogue organisations and not Hamas.

Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom prominently cover the surprise news yesterday that CEO Erez Vigodman has resigned from pharmaceutical giant Teva with immediate effect. Although the company has faced a number of recent setbacks, the move was not expected. Israel Hayom describes it as an “earthquake”.