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Israel's Knesset to Vote on Normalisation Deal With Bahrain on Tuesday, Reports Indicate

© AFP 2023 / MAZEN MAHDIBahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani (R) and head of the Israeli delegation National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat sign agreements during a ceremony in Bahrain's capital Manama, on October 18, 2020. - Israel and Bahrain cemented a deal officially establishing relations and signed several memorandums of understanding, further opening up the wealthy Gulf region to the Jewish state.
Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani (R) and head of the Israeli delegation National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat sign agreements during a ceremony in Bahrain's capital Manama, on October 18, 2020. - Israel and Bahrain cemented a deal officially establishing relations and signed several memorandums of understanding, further opening up the wealthy Gulf region to the Jewish state.  - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Israeli parliament is set to approve the normalisation deal with Bahrain later on Tuesday, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

The session, which is scheduled to be held at 14:00 Israel time (12:00 GMT), will be opened with a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the news agency.

In late October, the country’s government ratified the deal on the establishment of diplomatic relations and then agreed to submit it to the parliament for endorsement.

© AFP 2023 / SAUL LOEB(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents after participating in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020.
Israel's Knesset to Vote on Normalisation Deal With Bahrain on Tuesday, Reports Indicate - Sputnik International
(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents after participating in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020.

On 18 October, Bahrain and Israel signed the US-brokered Joint Communique on establishing diplomatic and peaceful relations, which was followed by a total of seven memorandums of understanding in various fields for mutually beneficial cooperation.

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