BBC News Online and the Daily Mail via AFP report that Israeli and Polish diplomats have held talks in Jerusalem in an effort to resolve a row over Poland’s controversial new Holocaust law. The law, which came into effect on Thursday, makes it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in the Nazi Holocaust. Israel says the law could criminalise some survivors whose testimony implicates Poles. Israeli officials described Thursday’s talks as “in-depth and open”.

The Guardian, the Sun, the Mirror, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Times, and the Independent report that Prince William will become the first British royal to make an official visit to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, an unexpected move given that political sensitivities in the region have stalled a formal trip for decades. The high-profile visit was “at the request of Her Majesty’s government and has been welcomed by the Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian authorities,” according to a statement from Kensington Palace. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, lauded the announcement of the visit, which he said would be the first of its kind. The office of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said it “welcomes this important visit, which we hope will contribute to strengthening ties of friendship between the two peoples”. The Duke of Cambridge has never been to the region before and will be going without Kate, who is due to give birth to her third child in April. The Queen’s cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, visited the St John eye clinic in the Palestinian Territories in 2007, but this was not considered an official visit, a Kensington Palace spokesman said. The Prince of Wales attended the funerals of both former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and former President Shimon Peres, but at the time the visits were not considered part of an official tour. BICOM CEO James Sorene said in the Telegraph about the visit that “this will absolutely be welcome and also seen as a case of better late than never. There is 70 years of hurt about why there has never been a visit to Israel when there have been visits to lots of other countries with all sort of issues. But I think a sensitive, warm visit will wash most of that away.”

The Daily Mail, BBC Radio Four’s Today Programme and the Times report that Israeli police are questioning Netanyahu for the first time in a corruption case that involves the country’s largest telecommunications company. Police allege that the owners of Bezeq Telecom provided favourable coverage of Netanyahu and his wife on a news website they controlled, in return for favours from communications regulators. Netanyahu, already a suspect in two other corruption cases in which he is accused of bribery, denies any wrongdoing.

The Daily Express reports that Iran has built new missile silos on the border with Israel, according to Israeli satellite intelligence. If the evidence of the satellite images is borne out tensions in the region will be further ratcheted-up and a pre-emptive Israeli missile strike is likely.

The Guardian reports that an Israeli private investigator has shared videos which he says show alleged child sex abuser Malka Leifer living a “normal, healthy” life despite being declared unfit to be extradited to Australia. Tsafrir Tsahi collected more than 200 hours of footage of the former school principal who is living in Israel but wanted in Australia on 74 counts of suspected sexual assault and rape at a Jewish ultra-Orthodox girls school in Melbourne. Tsahi’s material has now been handed over the police, who subsequently conducted their own investigation and have since rearrested Leifer on suspicion of “obstruction of justice”.

All the Israeli media focus on the Bezek/Walla investigation with Netanyahu and his wife Sara due to be questioned today by detectives. Yediot Ahronot chooses the headline “Facing the Detectives”, Maariv “Police to seek Netanyahu-Filber confrontation” and Israel Hayom “Netanyahu to be questioned at his residence; his wife Sara to give a statement at Lahav 433”. Haaretz chooses a headline of “Survey of Netanyahu cases to date” and features an article by Gidi Weitz which argues that Case 4000 is far more serious for the Prime Minister than Case 1000  and Case 2000 (Arnon Mozes and Yediot Ahronot).

Ma’ariv reports that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has authorised the police to conduct a probe into Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid’s ties with billionaire Arnon Milchan, before and after Lapid was appointed to serve as finance minister. Lapid has claimed that he had declined to promote the “Milchan bill” to benefit foreign businessmen during his tenure as finance minister. A report in Haaretz yesterday claimed that Lapid solicited the ministry’s professional opinion on the matter to determine whether he should promote it. He only consolidated his position after receiving the professional opinion.

Likud MK’s are calling for ties between Lapid and Milchan to be investigated. Coalition Chairman MK David Amsalem said “arbitrary enforcement is a crime. It cannot be that Prime Minister Netanyahu gets flayed with iron combs and investigated over every shadow of suspicion in his orbit, when on the other hand, serious allegations of a conflict of interest by Yair Lapid don’t even merit a preliminary probe.”

Lapid responded to Haaretz’s report on his Facebook page, saying: “The report proves (again) that I acted only according to the professional echelons and gave them full backing against the pressure from above to promote the Milchan bill. Remember that the Prime Minister received a million shekels and promoted the Milchan bill, and I didn’t take a penny from anyone and stopped the bill.”

Israel Hayom and Maariv both report on the ongoing ultra-Orthodox conscription crisis with one coalition figure being quoted by Israel Hayom as saying it is “liable to lead to elections”. Maariv reports on ongoing discussions between Likud officials and members of the ultra-Orthodox parties, who demanded that the bill be passed even before the state budget for 2019 is approved in the Knesset plenum in about two weeks. Likud officials warned yesterday that “if the Haredim keep up the threats, they’re liable to lead to early elections, and they’ll be playing into Yair Lapid’s hands”. In Netanyahu’s meeting with the leaders of the Haredi parties, he said: “We are in a politically volatile period. You can’t do this again.”  The High Court of Justice struck down the old conscription law six months ago on the grounds of inequality and gave the Knesset a year to enact another law.

Yediot Ahronot reports that the British Embassy in Israel announced yesterday that Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, will visit Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority this summer. This will be the first-ever official visit to Israel by a member of the British royal family. Prince William is expected to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin in Israel, and with King Abdullah in Jordan. The paper adds that “Anyone who was hoping to see Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in Israel will be disappointed, as their third child is due in April and Kate probably will not join the trip”.