Israel will open a diplomatic mission in Bahrain within the next month, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced Thursday while on an official visit to Morocco to inauguarte a liasion office in Rabat.
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The statement came as the foreign minister also announced the imminent opening of an Israeli embassy in Rabat and that of a Moroccan embassy in Jerusalem. The liasion office is currently housed in a temporary building while a new embassy is being built.
Lapid told local local journalists that he had been in touch with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani about inaugurating Israel's diplomatic mission in Manama.
A few days earlier he met with Bahrain's undersecretary for international relations Sheikh Abdullah bin Ahmad al Khalifa in Israel. Al Khalifa arrived in Jerusalem on Sunday for a four-day diplomatic trip during which he also met with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Bahrain was the second Muslim country to normalize relations with Israel, following the United Arab Emirates in the historic Abraham Accords brokered with the help of former United States president Donald Trump in August 2020.
Sudan became the third country to establish relations with the Jewish state in the framework of the Abraham Accords last October, and Morocco followed suit in December.
Until last August, the only Arab countries with diplomatic relations with Israel were Egypt and Jordan.
Both Israel and the UAE have opened embassies in their respective countries as of June 2021.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
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