The Daily Mail via AP and Yahoo News UK report on the new “Flashes of Memory” exhibition in Yad Vashem displaying archive footage filmed by Auschwitz’s Soviet liberators exploring the power of photography during World War II. It comes ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. The 1,500 photographs and 13 films displayed come from various perspectives, victims and perpetrators alike and look to offer visitors a new angle of looking at the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Independent reports that Israel has said the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has an anti-Israel bias ahead of a routine review of its overall human rights record. Aviva Raz Shechter, Israel’s Ambassador to the UNHRC said that the “unparalleled number of one-sided biased and political resolutions adopted regularly by the automatic majority…testif[ies] not only to the unfair treatment of the State of Israel, but also to the deficiencies of the Council itself and its agenda”. The latest review of the country’s overall record is the first since 2013 and is routine for all members.

BBC News Online released a video report on Israel’s plans to deport African migrants. The report covers scenes of a large protest in Tel Aviv and comes amid reports that the Israeli Immigration Authority has begun handing out notices to migrants who’s asylum requests have been rejected.

The Daily Mail via AP reports that Israeli Member of the Knesset and Deputy Minister Michael Oren questioned whether the family of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian girl who is being held for slapping Israeli soldiers were a “real” Palestinian family because of their Western appearance. Oren, said on Wednesday that Ahed Tamimi’s family was examined partly because of their appearance, including “blond-haired, freckled” children in “Western clothes”. He says his probe, held two years ago, concluded that “someone” was paying for children to scuffle with soldiers to tarnish Israel’s image abroad.

The Guardian and the Daily Mail via AP report that the Israeli Government has agreed to open graves believed to hold the remains of children who died shortly after the country’s founding, in the latest move in a long-running debate over whether the babies were stolen from their parents. Families and activists believe that several thousand children, mostly from poor Yemeni Jewish communities, were systematically abducted by childless Jewish families of east European descent. Other Arab and Balkan Jews have also claimed infants were taken after they arrived in Israel. Three government investigations have found that most of the missing babies had died, pointing to poor conditions in reception camps. Yet families say that when they were told of their children’s deaths, doctors refused to hand over death certificates or even bodies.

The Daily Mail via AFP Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev has welcomed the failure of her country’s controversial candidate for the Oscars to win a nomination, having called the film “Foxtrot” an insult to the military. “I think the decision saved us from bitter disappointment and prevented an untruthful worldwide representation of the Israeli army,” she told army radio on Tuesday evening after the announcement of nominees.

The Daily Mail reports that former Secretary of State John Kerry recently told a confidant of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas that he is considering a second run for the presidency in 2020. His comments, reported by the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv, came during a London discussion about the Middle East peace process with Hussein Agha, a Lebanese academic who is close to Abbas. Kerry urged Agha to tell Abbas to ‘stay strong’ and ‘play for time’ while Trump is in the White House.

The Times Higher Education Supplement reports that campaigns for an academic boycott of Israel are likely to be ramped up in the wake of a move to bring higher education institutions in West Bank settlements under Israeli law. The new legislation would bring Ariel University in Samaria and other colleges under the auspices of Israel’s Council for Higher Education, ending the role of the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria.

The Spectator has published an article by Lord Richard Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff, concerning the House of Commons debate on Hezbollah today. He argues that “abandoning the false distinction between the organisation’s ‘political’ and ‘terrorist’ wings would go a long way toward assuring our national interest and help avert a major new conflagration in the Middle East”.

The Guardian, Telegraph and the Financial Times report that Khaled Ali, a leftwing lawyer who was seen as the last remaining opposition candidate in Egypt’s presidential election, announced that he was pulling out, saying that conditions did not allow for a fair contest. Ali dropped out one day after the arrest of Sami Anan, a former senior army general who was seen as a potential heavyweight opponent for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Anan was dragged from his car by armed men on Tuesday morning and taken before a military court for allegedly violating army rules about entering politics. He has not been seen since.

In the Israeli media all the papers discuss Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attendance at the Davos World Economic Forum.  Maariv highlights German Chancellor Merkel’s opposition to changing the Iranian nuclear agreement. Instead they would support separate talks over the ballistic missiles that Iran has been developing and its actions in the Middle East.  Israel Hayom claims the Germans agree with Netanyahu’s view and that the world powers would look to renegotiate the nuclear deal with Iran.

Yediot Ahronot compares Netanyahu’s diplomatic offensive to Shimon Peres. “A popular Israeli leader who is greeted with embraces at the World Economic Forum in Davos, who rushes from one meeting to the next with important world  leaders and who stars at cocktail parties alongside some of the wealthiest people in the world. Sound familiar? But this time that Israeli leader isn’t the late former president, Shimon Peres, who was a household guest at the international forum, but…Prime Minister Netanyahu.”  The paper adds, “Netanyahu is embodying the very same naiveté that he has accused his adversaries of possessing. Because just as Peres spoke about a “new Middle East” precisely as the old Middle East was going up in flames…the current Prime Minister now talks about economic opportunities while the rest of the world is adamant about resolving the political problems.”

All the papers prominently cover the funerals of the two young children killed in the West Bank car crash on Tuesday night.  A 21 year old Palestinian was also killed in the collision.

Maariv follows up on their story yesterday suggesting former Secretary of State John Kerry gave advice to PA Chairman Abbas.  According to the paper this morning, even people who are known opponents of Donald Trump said that Kerry made a mistake. “He should have been sensitive to the repercussions of his statements,” said one senior Western diplomat at UN headquarters in New York.   Prominent Jewish figures who know Kerry well said “He still hasn’t forgiven Israel for the collapse of the mediation efforts that he invested to promote a political resolution to the conflict.”

Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz cover the New York Times serialisation of Ronen Bergman’s new book “Rise and Kill First,” about the Mossad and Israel’s history of targeted killing.  The book describes an operation from 1982 to shoot down a plane Arafat was believed to be on.  With two F-15 locked onto the target, the strike was called off at the last minute as they failed to verify if it was Arafat on board.

Yediot Ahronot highlights an IDF hero, Major N. is a Christian Border Policeman from northern Israel who has now prevented three separate terror attacks at the same junction in the West Bank in the last three years.   He is quoted, “I am always in a high state of alert. After each incident, I speak with my wife, and she says to do whatever makes you happy. I do not want to leave this spot.”

There is continued coverage of the spat between Defence Minister Lieberman and the left wing artist Yonatan Geffen.  Maariv publishes an open letter to Lieberman written by Gefen’s son Aviv, himself a famous musician.  The letter originally posted on Facebook includes a reference to the Hamas leader, Lieberman had threatened to kill, it says. “As long as you’re defence minister, Haniya and my father’s poems can sleep soundly. When your numbers in the polls are plummeting and your panic is rising, when your secular agenda has fallen between the cracks of the minimarket law, and when above all your threatening image, which helped you first break out, can’t hold up in the age of Trumpism and has made your power of deterrence old-fashioned, soft and weak.” Maariv also covers another celebrity, Gidi Gov who also entered the fray defended Gefen and on his radio show yesterday accused Lieberman of “ignorance and the racism, with a Russian accent, a new immigrant, who at the end of the day calls Yonatan Geffen an Israel-hater.” He later apologised and retracted the slur.