The Times and Telegraph report the decision taken by Israel’s Security Cabinet to reduce energy supplies to Gaza, taken at the request of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Both papers note that the decision could lead to greater instability in the Gaza Strip and potentially increase the likelihood of another conflict between Hamas and Israel.

The Times also reports that Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science has published research indicating white bread may not be as unhealthy as previously believed.

The i reports that a new research centre featuring scientists from a host of Middle Eastern countries, including Israel and Iran, will begin work this autumn. The founders of the Sesame project hope it will will boost science in the region and improve cross-border relations.

BBC News online and the BBC World Service report that Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim has returned to the West Bank for the first time in almost ten years to work with young Palestinian musicians.

The Mail Online reports that an Israeli Intelligence discovery of Islamic State plans to produce a laptop bomb for detonation on international flights lead to the ban on laptops on flights to the UK and US from six predominantly Muslim countries.

All the Israeli media continues to follow the fallout of the security cabinet decision to reduce the supply of electricity to Gaza at the behest of the PA. Yediot Ahronot and Haaretz cover the warning from Hamas that the decision is  “‎dangerous and disastrous” and would “‎lead to an accelerated deterioration and a blowup of the situation in the Gaza Strip”. The paper also cites multiple Israeli sources reassuring that the decision “‎will not cause the sky to fall on Gaza,” and was necessary, given that any other decision would have been considered “‎capitulation” ‎to Hamas. A high-ranking Israeli official added: “‎The world is not condemning us, and the criticism that is being voiced now is only domestic.”

Maariv includes a range of responses from across the political spectrum, including Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Yesh Atid MK Haim Yellin, who is quoted saying: “‎In the absence of development of infrastructure, electricity and combined with poor sanitation, the residents of the Gaza Strip could take to the streets and endanger the Hamas regime, which views this as a strategic risk and would be willing to make compromises to avoid reaching such a situation.”

All the Israeli papers also reflect on the New York Times revelation that it was Israeli cyber capabilities that exposed the ISIS plan to use sophisticated bombs to bring down aeroplanes. The article in question refers to the incident as a significant “collapse of intelligence capability that was acquired with great labor and at great risk”.

Maariv and Yediot Ahronot claim Prime Minister Netanyahu is weighing the option of closing the Al-Jazeera offices in Israel, given the diplomatic isolation of Qatar and recent regional developments. According to the report, Israel wishes to seize this window of opportunity to close the Qatari network, which has caused embarrassment to Israel in the past.

Kan Radio News reports a stabbing terror attack was averted last night at a Border Police post near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. A 20-year-old Palestinian woman from Yatta arrived with a knife in her hand. Border Police spotted her before she could reach the post and approached her. She threw the knife to the ground and was arrested. She told the Border Police that she had planned to carry out a terror attack because she wanted to die as a shahida (martyr).

Kan Radio News also reveals a rare public statement from Commander of the PA General Intelligence Service Maj. Gen. Majed Faraj, saying that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas could not concede “one inch of the homeland”. Faraj, who is a close associate of Abbas and considered one of the more powerful people in the PA, called on Hamas to dismantle its shadow government in the Gaza Strip and to let the government, headed by Rami Hamdallah, do its job in the Gaza Strip until new elections were held. He advised Hamas not to meddle in the affairs of Arab states, lest the Palestinian people overseas pay for this meddling.