The Times writes of cctv footage it claims shows an unarmed 16-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by a sniper during the operation in Jenin last week. Abdulrahman Hasan Ahmad Hardan was killed on the second day of the three-day operation. “Militant groups such as the relatively new Jenin Brigades, Islamic Jihad and the armed wing of Fatah,” the paper writes, “have little compunction about claiming non-combatants, even unarmed women and children, as their martyrs. Militants brought banners to the house celebrating him as such; his family expressed their unhappiness at that — at not inconsiderable risk to themselves — but they were adamant: Abdulrahman was not a militant and did not belong to any armed group.”

In the wake of the BBC’s apology over one of its presenters’ line of questioning of former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett last week, The Telegraph discusses how “The BBC just can’t stop showing its heinous bias against Israel”.

The Times anticipates reaction to today’s likely passing of judicial reform legislation in the Knesset. The weekend saw “demonstrations involving more than 200,000 people on Saturday in Tel Aviv and dozens of other locations. Assuming the coalition votes on the first law tomorrow, protesters are promising a nationwide ‘day of disruption’, including blockading the country’s main international airport outside Tel Aviv. Large groups of reserve officers in key air-force and intelligence units have threatened to stop turning up for service because they refuse to ‘serve in a dictatorship’.”

The Financial Times also covers the protests, focussing on Israel’s BIG mall group, which runs 24 shopping centres in the country, threatening to close its centres tomorrow. “Legislation such as this,” the company said, “will represent a critical blow to business and economic certainty in Israel, and will directly and immediately endanger our existence as a leading company in Israel. When the country is shaking and being torn apart from within, we cannot sit on the fence, and if needed, and as the legislation and the plundering of the public purse that we finance progress, we will escalate our measures.” The software group Wix, likewise an opponent of the reforms, said it would direct its purchases to BIG in a show of solidarity.

The Financial Times covers US President Biden’s remarks on Israel in a recent CNN interview. Asked about recent events in the West Bank, Biden said “It’s not all Israel’s problem now, in the West Bank, but they are a part of the problem.”

The Daily Express writes of an injured Ukrainian solider who had received medical treatment in Israel being removed from a Wizz Air flight from Tel Aviv to Warsaw. After medical concerns regarding the man’s prosthesis were cited by airline staff, he was seen crying and shouting: “How am I going to get home?”

The Israeli media is dominated by the latest developments on the coalition’s judicial reform programme and the protest movement’s response to them. All outlets anticipate this evening’s Knesset vote on a first reading of the bill limiting the Supreme Court’s ability to invoke grounds of reasonability.

Kan Radio reports that with the final vote set to take place in two weeks time, Prime Minister Netanyahu is insisting that the bill be softened after its first reading, in a bid to achieve greater consensus. Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chair Simcha Rothman is likely to fight this and seek to adhere much more closely to the more restrictive version to be voted on today, which allows for all public officials including the prime minister, cabinet ministers, MKs and the heads of local councils to appoint or fire workers with no possibility of judicial review. Should the vote pass the Knesset as expected, then it will return to the committee for further deliberation tomorrow. Yediot Ahronot writes that on achievement of the new restrictions on the court, two government decisions would be quickly enacted: the reappointment of Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri as a minister (blocked by the court, partly on grounds of reasonability, in January) and the firing of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. Baharav-Miara was repeatedly assailed at yesterday’s cabinet meeting, with ministers angry at what they say has been her excessive tolerance to the protest movement. The AG has been subject to near constant calls for her dismissal by ministers and other coalition MKs, and Likud MK Avichay Buaron said yesterday during an interview with the Knesset TV station that the AG would be fired as soon as the grounds of reasonability has been annulled.

Yediot Ahronot’s Tova Tzimuki and Itamar Eichner say of the extraordinary tone of the meeting: “There has never been a performance quite like this one at an Israeli cabinet meeting. That is likely true for any other country as well. Ambush, witch hunt, verbal lynching, tar-and-feathering—those might be the best phrases to describe what Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara experienced yesterday during the five-hour session, two hours longer than planned.” Haaretz quotes Israeli President Herzog, in a speech which also called for a return to negotiations on judicial reform, opposing the treatment of the AG. “Criticism will always have a place,” he said; “that’s how democracy works, but limitless harassment of civil servants and public servants is intolerable and unacceptable.” Kan Radio reports that Baharav-Miara plans neither to resign nor to bow to government calls to authorise a harsher crackdown on protesters.

Haaretz details the protest movement’s response to expected passage of the bill in its first reading. A “day of disruption” is promised tomorrow, with Israeli business set to join demonstrators in protesting the legislation.

Ynet features Biden’s CNN interview. “This is the most extreme government I have seen since the days of Golda Meir,” he says, also adding that “ministers who say ‘we can settle wherever we want,’ they are part of the problem.” Maariv includes Yaki Dayan, former Israeli Consul General in Los Angeles, saying he couldn’t recall such explicit criticism from a US President in recent times; “Certainly not from someone who is a friend of Israel. I think there is also a personal aspect here, there is also a great disappointment here.” Israel Hayom’s coverage of the interview focusses on Biden’s remarks on progress towards Israeli-Saudi normalisation: “it depends upon the conduct and what is asked of us for them to recognise Israel,” he said. “Quite frankly, I don’t think they have much of a problem with Israel. And whether or not we would provide a means by which they could have civilian nuclear power and/or be a guarantor of their security, that’s – I think that’s a little way off.” Yediot Ahronot’s Nahum Barnea argues that “Biden’s statements should not be regarded as an isolated outburst, as an expression of momentary frustration, but as part of a process. The Democratic Party is freeing itself from its historic commitment towards the State of Israel. Biden, who fought against that process in the past, has given up. The story of shared values isn’t relevant anymore. There are security interests and that’s it, more or less.”

Channel 12 and Israel Hayom report fragments of a rocket being found yesterday in the cemetery of Moshav Ram-On, south of Afula. Police arrived on the scene to dispose of the rocket, seemingly the second of two rockets that were fired from Jenin two weeks ago.

Israel Hayom cites Saudi media reporting that Israel is conducting negotiations with Iran for the release of Israeli academic Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was abducted in Iraq in March. The report alleges Israel is prepared to countenance exchange Tsurkov with an Iranian apprehended recently when planning attacks on Israelis and other Jews in Cyprus.