The i reports that Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations’ (UN) was this week elected to head the United Nations’ (UN) Legal Committee, the first time that an Israeli representative has headed one of the UN’s six permanent committees. Israelis have previously presided over ad-hoc UN committees and even co-chaired the General Assembly. However, the article says that Danon’s election faced concerted diplomatic opposition by Arab states and Iran. He responded saying, “We will not allow dictatorships and anti-Israel countries to harm our standing in the international community.”

The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Express, i and Metro all report on former-London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s appearance yesterday before the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee session on anti-Semitism in Britain. Livingstone was recently suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation, following an outcry after he suggested that Hitler was a Zionist. However, he stuck by his comments yesterday and refused to apologise for them. Former-Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna, a committee member, condemned Livingstone as a “pin-up for prejudice” which he said the Labour Party should be fighting against.

In the Israeli media, Maariv and Israel Hayom still lead with the aftermath of the Orlando shooting, in which 50 people were killed in a gay nightclub by a gunman who claimed allegiance to ISIS. Writing in Maariv, former-Navy commander Eliezer Marom says: “The coming elections in the US will take place in the shadow of the incident in Orlando, and it could affect their outcome.  At this time, there is need for a determined American leadership that will declare war on radical Islamic terrorism and will lead a global coalition in order to win this war.”

A major item in Yediot Ahronot is what is being called an “equality march” organised by local authorities, demanding an equal allocation of resources to communities in Israel’s geographical periphery. The march, from the southern town of Yerucham to the capital Jerusalem, is being joined by a number of public figures, including Yesh Atid MKs Meir Cohen and Karin Elharar, plus MK Orly Levy-Abuksis, who recently left Yisrael Beitenu over a lack of social agenda, but remains a Knesset member. Local authorities in more remote regions of Israel have often complained of insufficient government funds.

Israel Hayom and Israel Radio news both prominently report that the Military Judge Advocate General’s Office yesterday recommended a reprimand for Lt. Col. Neria Yeshurun, who commanded an armoured unit in Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in summer 2014 and gave orders to shell a building, indicating that the salvo was in memory of an officer who had been killed the day before by gunfire from the same building. The Military Judge Advocate General concluded that the officer’s actions did not conform with the values of the IDF.

Meanwhile, Israel Radio also reports that two Israeli civilians were lightly injured yesterday, when their car was pelted with stones in Hawara, south of Nablus in the West Bank.