The BBC, The Independent, Reuters, The Telegraph, and The Daily Mail all report on our main item, on Israeli’s military operation in Jenin.

The Guardian details a threatened Conservative rebellion on the UK government’s bill banning local councils and other public bodies from boycotting Israel. As many as 50 Conservative MPs are threatening to abstain, while the Labour opposition is also threatening to abstain if the “reasoned amendment” it has tabled falls at the bill’s second reading today. “The bill has divided opinion in the Jewish community,” writes the paper, “but has the strong support of the British Board of Deputies, as well as the chair of the Jewish Leadership Council.” It also quotes Labour’s shadow communities secretary Lisa Nandy telling the UK Jewish News: “The bill has been drawn very widely. It gives far-reaching powers to the secretary of state, and has a number of far-reaching implications, none of which appear to have anything to do with tackling BDS, the issue the government says it wants to solve, which we share. We also share the concerns raised by MPs of all parties, campaigners and human rights groups that this bill will have a major impact on groups, such as the Uyghur in Xinjiang and other persecuted groups across the world.”

The Independent reports the Israeli Defence Ministry’s announcement on Sunday that Israel is to buy twenty-five F-35 aircraft from the US. The $3 billion deal will increase the air force’s arsenal of F-35s by 50 percent. Israel remains the only Middle Eastern state in possession of the F-35, widely regarded as the world’s most advanced fighter jet.

Israel Hayom details events from the early hours of Sunday morning, in which a Syrian anti-aircraft missile exploded in mid-air over Israel, producing a powerful explosion which was heard in Jerusalem, the Negev, and central Israel. Israel had earlier struck targets in the Syrian city of Homs and responded to the Syrian missile with further strikes on the air defence battery from which it came. Israel has in recent months increased strikes on Syrian air bases in a bid to disrupt Iran’s aerial supply lines to deliver arms to allies in Syria and Lebanon, including Hezbollah.

Kan Radio reports hundreds of anti-judicial reform demonstrators blocking entry to the Haifa port today. Responding to coalition plans to advance the bill limiting the Supreme Court’s use of the grounds of reasonability this week, the protest movement looks set to hold further demonstrations in 85 separate locations throughout the day. The movement has frequently compared the reforms with what it argues are anti-democratic tendencies in Poland. In a symbolic analogy, in Haifa it has brought a container filled with Polish salami. Government critics have referred to the reform plan as a Salami or “slice by slice” approach.

Significant disruption is expected at Ben Gurion airport, where about 1,000 police officers will provide security. Police Commissioner Insp. Gen. Yaakov Shabtai defended the right to protest but warned that blocking roads in and around the airport could prove catastrophic in the event of an emergency. Demonstrators last night rejected requests to limit the airport protest to Terminal 1.

In Yediot Ahronot, Avi Issacharoff writes on the Iranian exploitation of the power vacuum in the West Bank created by the Palestinian Authority’s ever-increasing loss of control. “This Iranian behaviour is different from the behaviour we had been accustomed to seeing for many years, in which the Iranians made do with bankrolling terror organisations … something has changed in recent months. Tehran made a clear decision to ratchet up its pressure on Israel, possibly in response to the series of Israeli operations on Iranian soil and the Israeli operations in Syria. The Iranian conclusion was that only a focused effort to produce terror attacks against Israelis in the West Bank and inside Israel would be effective. In other words, terror attacks overseas might make a few headlines, but weren’t going to bother the Israelis the way an increasing number of terror attacks ‘close to home’ would. Hence, Iran’s decision to launch an offensive. That is what produced the developments that we have been seeing on the ground in the past several months: a major Iranian effort to set in motion terror attacks either in the West Bank or inside Israel in order to undermine security. There isn’t just one specific group or commander responsible for that effort either. Whereas in the past we had seen the Quds Force’s involvement in the Palestinian arena, today a very large number of Iranian units that belong to different Iranian organisations are involved.”

Ynet covers the expiration over the weekend of the legal arrangement exempting young members of the ultra-Orthodox community from military service. The expiration means that technically the community now falls under the jurisdiction of the Israel Defence Service Law, meaning that members are formally criminally liable for failing to respond to a call-up. The government has recently attempted a permanent legislative solution to the issue (for more, see BICOM’s briefing) but failed to finalise a version it felt could withstand Supreme Court oversight. As a temporary solution – until it can re-attempt legislation – the government recently approved a declarative decision whereby it “instructs the defence minister to direct the [IDF] chief of staff” not to take steps to draft eligible Haredi men, as long as they “present before the authorities the approval of their studies in a yeshiva based on the needs and demands of the army.” There is a split within the coalition’s ultra-Orthodox factions on the right tactical approach to protect ultra-Orthodox exemption. Shas backs Prime Minister Netanyahu in favouring a pragmatic and gradual approach, while factions within United Torah Judaism insist on permanent and comprehensive solution. Channel 12 reports that a Basic Law: Torah Study will be introduced in this Knesset in a bid to prevent the courts striking down legislation exempting the ultra-Orthodox by enshrining religious study as a national priority.

Yediot Ahronot covers Hezbollah’s removal of one of the two tents it had pitched in Israeli territory in May. Israel had recently complained to the UN that the tents were south of the Blue Line – the internationally recognised Israel-Lebanon border. The US and France were also asked to apply pressure on Beirut to remove the tents, which Israeli officials believe has now led to the removal of the first tent. The other tent remains, along with between six and eight armed men, and the security establishment has prepared several possible courses of action should diplomatic efforts not prove effective.

Haaretz reports a 30-year-old Arab Israeli man being shot dead in the northern city of Nazareth on Sunday evening, the latest in a series of incidents of criminal violence within the Israeli-Arab community. Abd Alqader Abd Aljawad was taken to the city’s English Hospital in critical condition before later succumbing to his wounds, with police believing his shooting to be connected to the ongoing conflict between the Hariri and Bakri families.