The Financial Times and the Independent report on talks between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron about the Iran nuclear agreement. Trump has hinted that he could be persuaded to keep the US in the Iran nuclear deal after talks with Macron, who pledged to work with Washington to contain the Islamic republic. Trump, who has given European signatories to the deal a deadline of 12 May to “fix” the accord or face its collapse, said on Tuesday that “we could at least have an agreement among ourselves fairly quickly”. “I think we are fairly close to understanding each other,” he said. Macron, who has been at the forefront of European efforts to preserve the deal while responding to Mr Trump’s concerns, said the two leaders had floated “new” solutions during bilateral talks at the White House. The Independent reported that  Macron has said he believes Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal – something he had hoped to dissuade Trump from doing during his three-day to Washington. “My view – I don’t know what your president will decide – is that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons,” he said. The Independent also reports that Iran’s president has rejected a proposal to change the international deal regulating the country’s nuclear programme, mocking the suggestion outlined by Macron and Trump and dismissing the US President as “a tradesman”.

BBC News Online, the Guardian and the Daily Mail via AP  report that an Israeli court has jailed a former border policeman for shooting dead a teenage Palestinian protester in 2014. Ben Deri was given a nine-month term for killing 17-year-old Nadim Nuwara during a protest at the Beitunia checkpoint in the West Bank. Deri pleaded guilty to causing death by negligence after prosecutors dropped the charge of manslaughter. A second teenager – Muhammad Abu Thahr, 16 – was killed at the same protest, but Israeli prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to pursue any charges.

The Times reports that Russia will supply new air defence systems to the Syrian military — a move that could bring it into direct conflict with Israel. Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi, of the Russian military general staff, said that deliveries of weapons systems would begin “in the nearest future”. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said last week that recent US airstrikes against Syrian targets meant that the Kremlin no longer had any “moral obligations” to withhold the delivery of advanced S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to the Assad regime. Israel has carried out scores of bombing raids against Syrian targets since the civil war began in 2011, and has pledged to target the S-300 systems if they are deployed against Israeli jets. “If someone fires on our planes, we will destroy them,” Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said this week. Tensions with Iran are also increasing. Some analysts have suggested that Israel could pre-emptively bomb the areas where the new defence systems are deployed, a decision that would have “catastrophic consequences for all sides,” unnamed Russian military officials told the Kommersant newspaper.

The Independent reports that an Israeli soldier has been filmed celebrating after shooting a Palestinian protester with rubber bullets. The video, released by Jerusalem-based NGO B’Tselem, shows three soldiers discussing the best way to shoot at the protesters. In the video the soldiers say the protesters are throwing rocks. One of the soldiers then fires, before laughing and saying “the son of a bitch”. It is the second video released this month appearing to show Israeli soldiers cheering after shooting at Palestinians. The latest incident was filmed at an Israeli roadblock in Madama, south of Nablus, on 13 April.

The Times reports that allegations that Labour has a problem with antisemitism are “scaremongering” and a “distraction,” according to a motion likely to be approved by activists in southeast London. Senior figures in the Lewisham Deptford constituency party, dominated by Momentum activists, will meet next week to discuss a motion that accusations of antisemitism are being used to “purge or muzzle” critics of Israel. The Ladywell branch of the constituency party even claims that “there has been a factional purge of socialists through unsubstantiated and unattributed allegations” of antisemitism.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Egyptian superstar Mohamed Salah’s devastating performance for Liverpool in the Champions League has brought him an unexpected fan, Avigdor Liberman. “I will be calling the chief of staff immediately to tell him to hire Mohamed Salah to the Israeli army,” Israel’s Defence Minister wrote on Twitter after Salah inspired Liverpool to a 5-2 victory over Roma in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final. Despite the tongue-in-cheek demand from Lieberman, there appears no chance that Salah will turn out for an Israeli team.

The Daily Mirror reports that an expelled Labour activist today declared claims of antisemitism in the Labour Party have been manufactured by CIA spies and the state of Israel. Tony Greenstein was among dozens of angry protesters outside a disciplinary hearing into Marc Wadsworth, who is accused of making antisemitic comments in 2016. When asked what was behind the antisemitism row, Greenstein said: “The State of Israel, the State of Israel. And also the Americans I imagine.” Asked to clarify whether or not he meant claims of antisemitism in Labour, he said: “Yes, undoubtedly. It’s been stimulated, it’s been manufactured, it’s artificial. It didn’t come from nowhere. I’m not privy to the secrets of the Israeli Embassy. All I can say is it isn’t about antisemitism. Who is behind it? I suspect Israel and the United States. Why? Because the United States doesn’t like Corbyn, any more than Benjamin Netanyahu does.” Asked if Israel should exist, Greenstein said: “The people who live in Israel should continue to live there. The state itself, which is a racist apartheid state, should not exist.”

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila is due to start a two-day visit to Israel on Wednesday, as a political row brews over the possible transfer of Romania’s embassy to Jerusalem. Dancila, from the left-wing Social Democrats (PSD), will have lunch with her Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu before visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, according to Israeli officials. On Thursday she is due to visit the Western Wall and meet President Reuven Rivlin. The visit comes days after PSD party chief Liviu Dragnea kicked off a political row in Romania by announcing the government’s “decision” to move the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that a Palestinian journalist shot two weeks ago by Israeli forces on the Gaza border has died, Israeli and Palestinian sources said Wednesday, the second journalist killed in a month of unrest. Ahmed Abu Hussein, was shot on 13 April while covering protests along the Gaza border for a radio station based there. The Gaza health ministry announced he had died after receiving treatment inside Israel, which the Sheba hospital near Tel Aviv confirmed. Abu Hussein worked for Radio Shaab, a Gazan radio station, as well as being a photographer for another local news agency.

Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot report that Russia will soon supply the Syrian army with advanced defence systems. In an opinion piece in Israel Hayom, Oded Granot writes that the situation is complex, but that Israel has an answer to the S-300. Commenting in Maariv, Yossi Melman suggests argues that “obviously, if the Assad regime is given S-300 missiles, that will be happening first and foremost because of the attack by the three Western countries this month on regime targets, as a punitive strike for the use that it made of chemical weapons. But it is also a signal to Israel for its multiple attacks in Syria in general, and against the Iranian troops there in particular.”  He added that “if the Russians deploy S-300 batteries in Syria, that will severely impede the IAF’s freedom of movement and action in Syrian and Lebanese airspace,” although “it will take about two years before those systems are operational in the Syrian army [and] the IDF long ago familiarized itself with weapon systems of that kind, which are deployed operationally in Iran, and has developed and will continue to develop methods to challenge and evade them”.

In related news, Maariv reports that officials in Jerusalem are concerned that Iran recently supplied Syria with advanced weaponry that could pose a threat to Israel. Cargo flights left Iran for Syria in the days after the 14 April attack on the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons facilities, with concerns that they could include more anti-aircraft missiles.

Maariv reports that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to be questioned by the police once again over Case 4,000. The questioning relates to accusations of alleged corruption and bribery in a deal between the Communications Ministry and the telecommunications company Bezeq in return for favourable media coverage on the news website Walla.

Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot report that a policeman who killed a Palestinian teen has been sentenced to nine months in prison. The incident occurred four years ago in Bituniya, near Ramallah, in clashes that erupted between Palestinians and the security forces on a Nakba Day demonstration. The judge summarised that “the defendant shot the deceased in violation of protocol and the instructions that he received… The degree of his negligence was high. The defendant did not check that the magazine in his possession contained only bullet-less cartridges, and didn’t load his gun with rubber bullets as required… To that, we need to add the fact that the shot was fired without any justification”. Deri was ultimately convicted of causing a death by negligence.

Israel Hayom reports that the Czech President Miloš Zeman has promised that the Czech Embassy will move to Jerusalem from its current location in Tel Aviv in three stages. Kan Radio News reports that Netanyahu praised Zeman on Twitter, adding that he hoped the decision will be implemented quickly.

The Times of Israel reports that United States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has been seeking to adopt the Israeli name for the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, in his official remarks and statements, but has so far been prevented from doing so by the Trump administration, officials told the Associated Press.

Yediot Ahronoth reports suspicions by the police that right-wing extremists committed a hate crime in the village of Iksal, which is in the Jezreel Valley. It states that the Judea and Samaria District Police’s Nationalist Crimes Unit was tasked with the investigation. Two other incidents have also been recorded. Fifteen cars were vandalised in the village Dir Amar north of Ramallah and graffiti was spray-painted on walls, and several cars were vandalised in the village Galud in the northern West Bank.