Despite fear and intimidation that the Bahraini authorities have worked hard to bolster in the past years in the country, the streets of Bahrain were full of angry protests on Friday, October 1, 2021, denouncing the visit of the Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, to Manama.

Amid anti-normalization protests, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and other prominent officials, as part of an official visit to inaugurate the Israeli Embassy in the Bahraini capital, Manama.

Sheikh Hussein Al-Daihi, deputy Secretary-General of the Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, confirmed to the British BBC Channel the Bahraini peoples' condemnation of the Israeli Foreign Minister's visit to Bahrain.

The Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society announced its absolute rejection of the Israeli Foreign Minister's visit to Bahrain's capital, Manama.

The Bahraini Ambassador to Tel Aviv, Khaled Yousef Al-Jalahma, will arrive in Israel tomorrow (Tuesday) to officially assume his duties.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told Moroccan journalists on Thursday that the new Israeli diplomatic mission is expected to open in Bahrain next month.

Israel and Bahrain announced on Sunday signing a memorandum of understanding: "Fight Iran in the war of ideas." Reactions on the agreement varied. What is Tel Aviv's aim of this cooperation and why has it chosen Bahrain in particular?

An Israeli news website said that the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs signed a historic agreement with the Derasat Institute of Bahrain

Sayed Ahmed Al-Wadaei, director of advocacy at the UK-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, said that the UAE government has targeted him through the Israeli Pegasus spying program.

The British "The Guardian" newspaper revealed that the Israeli technology firm NSO Group targeted editor of the Financial Times and more than 180 editors, investigative reporters and other journalists around the world through surveillance program provided to its government clients across the world, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

The United Arab Emirates opened an embassy in Israel Wednesday, housed in Tel Aviv's new stock exchange building, in the latest normalization move under a deal brokered by Washington last year.

Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani met on Sunday (June 27, 2021) with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh in Italy.

Former Bahraini ambassador to Washington Hoda Al-Nonoo said that plans are underway to bring a Touro delegation to visit Bahrain.

Bahrain's Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim expressed his thanks and appreciation for the Bahraini people's stance, who launched a media campaign against welcoming any commercial or tourist delegations from the Israeli occupation.

Bahrain's minister of foreign affairs, Abdullatif Al-Zayani, said on Wednesday the kingdom is communicating with Israel's new government to learn about its policy on the efforts aiming to bring peace to the region by settling the Palestinian issue in line with the two-state solution, Reuters reported.

Bahrain's crown prince sent a congratulatory telegraph to new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in which he expressed his sincere wishes to the formed government for success in its tasks.

On September 11, 2020, then US president Donald Trump announced that the occupying state of Israel and Bahrain have reached a "historic agreement" to establish full ties between them, highlighting that Bahrain is "the second Arab country [after the UAE] to make peace with Israel in 30 days," in a tweet.

On Tuesday, an Israeli airline canceled a scheduled flight to Dubai after the Saudi authorities refused to allow it to pass over the kingdom, according to Hebrew media.

The National Islamic Al-Wefaq Society called on the Bahraini authorities to end the normalization agreements with the Israeli occupation entity, and work towards immediately "expelling representative of the occupying Zionist mission from Bahrain."

Bahrain's Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said that it adds its voice to Bahraini national calls for intensifying solidarity with the Palestinian people and rejecting all forms of normalization with the Israeli occupation state.