The Guardian reports that Manchester University amended the title of an event featuring Holocaust survivor Marika Sherwood and asked organisers to agree to a series of conditions before the event could take place. The talk was intended to discuss Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians and was titled “You’re doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to me”. The Guardian reports that the University intervened after a visit to the University by Mark Regev, the Israeli ambassador to the UK.

The Guardian and the Daily Mail both report on comments made by the US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, in which he suggested that only 2 per cent of the West Bank is occupied by Israel and that the international community has always intended for Israel to keep some of the land it seized during the six-day war in 1967. The comments were made in an interview with the news channel Walla news.

The Guardian reports that the UN human rights commissioner, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, has sent letters to an estimated 150 international and Israeli businesses warning that they may be included in a UN database of companies involved with illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

BBC News Online and the Guardian reports that ISIS has released what appears to be an audio recording of their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In the tapes the speaker refers to recent North Korean threats against Japan and the US, as well as talking about battles for ISIS strongholds such as Mosul, which was regained by Iraqi forces in July. Baghdadi has not been seen in public since July 2014, leading to speculation about his fate.

To coincide with Yom Kippur, which begins this evening, Yediot Ahronot includes an article by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin focusing on forgiveness.

Kan Radio News notes, as is standard every year on Yom Kippur (and other Jewish festivals), there will be a full closure of the West Bank and the crossings from the Gaza Strip. The closure began last night at midnight and will end midnight tomorrow.  Entry of Palestinian workers to settlements will also be prohibited over Yom Kippur. Travel will be permitted for humanitarian and exceptional cases.

Israel Hayom reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed ministers this week that he had decided to freeze the “Kalkilya plan… until further notice”. This refers to a plan to build 14,000 new apartments for Palestinians west of the city of Kalkilya. However, he did ask the ministers to approve two gestures towards the Palestinians: Paving an access road to the new city of Rawabi and the completion of an industrial zone in Tulkarm. The Prime Minister made it clear that these were requests from the US, and both plans were approved.

Haaretz and Israel Hayom report that Hamas has agreed to an Egyptian framework for prisoner exchanges but Israel has rejected the proposal as it heavily favours Hamas.

Yediot Ahronot follows Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg’s (Zionist Union) decision that he is resigning as a member of Knesset to return to academia. He will be replaced by Saleh Saed, a representative of the Druze community.

Maariv reports that President Rivlin is currently examining the possibility of granting pardons on the occasion of the State of Israel’s 70^th anniversary celebrations. The plan is to grant pardons to hundreds of prisoners who are serving a prison sentence or people who were convicted and were given a suspended sentence. The pardon will apply to “light offenders,” not be extended to murderers, people who committed offenses related to state security, sex offenders, drug dealers, or offenders who committed acts of serious violence.