The Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Sun, Metro and i all cover the uncertainty surrounding next month’s Labour Party conference after security firm G4S declined an approach to secure the event, leaving the party without adequate security arrangements. The Labour Party National Executive Council had recently decided to end ties with G4S, which had secured the party conference for many years, over the company’s work in Israeli prisons. G4S said that it rejected the Labour Party request partly over fears for staff safety, after some had been previously threatened by Labour activists over the company’s Israel connections.

The Times reports that animals from “the world’s worst zoo” in Gaza, including a Bengal tiger, have been rescued by an animal welfare group, with some given sanctuary in Israel. The animals in the Gaza zoo were largely smuggled from Egypt via underground tunnels. The zoo’s owners could no longer afford to maintain adequate conditions for the animals.

Another Times article says that research conducted by the University of Haifa and the Israel Electric Corporation has found that jellyfish are more likely to swarm close to beaches in Israel in the days before and after a full moon.

The Telegraph, Times and Financial Times all report that Playtech, the gaming company owned by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi, saw its share price surge by 3.2 per cent yesterday, as a special dividend worth £128m was paid to investors.

The online editions of the Guardian, Telegraph and Times all cover a report by the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which concludes that both ISIS and the Assad regime in Syria used chemical weapons in 2014 and 2015. Meanwhile, the Guardian online says that Assad’s troops are set to capture the Damascus suburb of Darayya, following a brutal four-year siege.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot is potential disquiet within the coalition over the issue of Israel Railways carrying out maintenance work on the Jewish Sabbath. The railway authority and police want to prevent major disruption to commuters during the week. However, MKs from the ultra-Orthodox parties which are part of the government have written a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly objecting to the plan. The letter says that it constitutes a “very grave precedent and a blatant violation of the status quo”, viewed as a veiled threat to leave the government.

Maariv leads with an investigative piece, which claims that Israel allowed millions of dollars from Qatar to enter Israel via Jordan and reach the Gaza Strip. It is thought that the money was intended to pay the salaries of civil servants in the Gaza Strip. The issue of public salaries has been a point of tension between Hamas and the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. The article includes a quote from Israel’s Defence Ministry which says that security forces confirmed that the money would be used for humanitarian purposes and could not be used to fund terror.

A major item in Israel Hayom is the news that an Israeli start-up allegedly exploited a security breach in Apple’s iOS operating system for iPhones, in order to attempt to gain control of the phone of a humanitarian worker in the United Arab Emirates. On inspection, the breach was traced back to the Israeli company. Apple has apparently been forced to update its global security system.