Amnesty International and Citizen Lab issued two reports revealing the targeting of Amnesty by a spyware program developed by the Israeli NSO Group.

Rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday said it had been targeted by surveillance spyware in a suspected infiltration attempt by a government "hostile" to its work.

Israel would deploy its military if Iran were to try to block the Bab al-Mandeb strait that links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.

Bahrain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the adoption by the Israeli Knesset of the so-called Jewish Nation-state Bill.

Israel’s energy minister said on Tuesday after meeting Trump administration officials he is confident that the United States will not relax non-proliferation standards in any nuclear power deal it agrees with Saudi Arabia.

The Israeli government confirmed the participation of a delegation from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the UNESCO World Heritage Committee conference that will be held in the Bahraini Capital, Manama, from June 24 till July 4, 2018.

Israeli media outlets reported a Bahraini official as saying that “Bahrain does not view Israel as an enemy,” stressing that “Bahrain will be first Gulf state to form ties with Israel.”

Israel has indicted a former cabinet minister on suspicion of spying for Iran, Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service said on Monday.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah praised the Bahraini citizens’ demonstrations marking International Quds Day to voice solidarity with Palestine, despite all the circumstances they face.

The local Bahraini Al-Ayyam newspaper, linked to the Royal Court, published a piece defending the statements made by Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.

A political analyst at the Brookings Institution said what we witness in Middle East of alignment of interest between the Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia and Israel is very interesting.

Bahrain’s ambassador to Washington Abdullah bin Rashid Al Khalifa (son of the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs) defended, in a statement to an Israeli newspaper on Thursday (May 10, 2018), the Israeli strikes on Syria saying that “no country would tolerate aggression of any kind”.

A special assistant to the president on the national security council, hailed Bahrain’s recognition in “Israel’s right to self-defense” and “recognizing it as a country”.

The Associated Press Agency said on Saturday (May 12, 2018) that a secret meeting was held between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahraini and Emirati ambassadors, during Netanyahu’s visit to Washington last Mach to take part in an annual pro-Israel policy conference, AIPAC.

Israeli Minister of Communications Ayoob Kara praised Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs’ supporting stance to the last rocket attack on what it was said to be targets affiliated with the Iranian forces in Syria, describing it as “historical support”.

AFP agency said that Bahrain backed what it named “Israel's right to defend itself" after the strikes launched by the Israeli entity on military bases in Syria.

Palestinians have expressed outrage at teams from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for taking part in the opening legs of the Giro d’Italia cycling race in Israel over the weekend, which they say undermined Arab solidarity with their cause.

Israel's Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said in statements on Thursday that if it were to attack Tel Aviv, Israel would retaliate with an attack against Tehran.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer.

President Donald Trump on Monday welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House for talks, as both leaders heralded the U.S. decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem.