Hebrew news outlets said on Thursday (February 10, 2022) that the Israeli entity will appoint a military officer to work permanently in Bahrain.

The Government of Bahrain has signed a security agreement with Israel, which provides for cooperation in the field of intelligence and training.

Israel and Bahrain signed a security cooperation agreement on Thursday, the first between Israel and a Gulf nation, during a visit by the Israeli defence minister to the kingdom amid heightened tensions in the region.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received, at the Al-Sakhir Palace on Thursday (February 3, 2021), the Defence Minister of Israel, Benny Gantz, who is currently on a visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain.

King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa received on (December 28, 2021), at Al-Sakhir Palace, the credentials of the Israeli Ambassador Eitan Na'eh.

An Israeli delegation visited Bahrain, toured the Al-Fateh Mosque in Al-Juffair area and took commemorative photos there, photos and videos posted on social media showed.

President of the Israeli Occupation Isaac Herzog made a phone call with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to congratulate him on Bahrain's 50th National Day.

Itay Tagner, Israel's chargé d'affaires to Bahrain, who has finished his work in the Kingdom, said that "Relations with Israel are part of Bahrain's security strategy."

The Bahraini government does not hesitate to proceed with its strategy aimed at changing Bahrain's demographic composition.

Palestinian factions condemned, on Friday, Bahrain's reception of the Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Manama.

More than 240 Shiite clerics in Bahrain signed a statement rejecting "normalization with the Zionist enemy" and the opening of an Israeli embassy in Manama.

Sources told Haaretz that Israel and Bahrain are looking into cooperation in responding to Iranian drone attacks, according to a report published by the newspaper on October 1, 2021.

The Bahraini National Initiative against Normalization with the Zionist Enemy stressed its "total rejection of normalization with this usurping entity, which does not hesitate to kill children, women and the elderly, and practice the worst forms of state terrorism against the Palestinian people."

Bahrain witnessed protests, coinciding with a visit paid by the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yair Lapid, to Bahrain's capital, Manama, for the Israeli entity's inauguration of its embassy.

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.

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will visit Bahrain on Thursday, in the first official trip by an Israeli cabinet minister to the Gulf state after the diplomatic agreement reached last year.

Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdulatif Al-Zayani met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in New York to discuss strengthening the bilateral alliance.

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Friday that he will visit Bahrain later this month, the first such visit by an Israeli minister to the Gulf country following the normalization agreement reached last year.