Bahrain sets the date of its flights to Israel

Bahrain’s Gulf Air will start its weekly flights to Israel next month, with flights operating on Mondays and Thursdays of each week.

Cairo – Sputnik. Today, Thursday, the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that the Bahraini company will start operating flights to Israel weekly, after the arrival of the first Bahraini ambassador to Israel following the signing of an agreement to normalize relations between the two countries in mid-September last year.

The first ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Khaled Al-Jalahma, arrived in Tel Aviv last Tuesday, and arrived on the first Bahraini Gulf Airlines flight to Israel.
The Bahraini ambassador is the fifth Arab ambassador accredited to Tel Aviv, after Egypt, Jordan, the UAE and Morocco. He has represented Bahrain on several diplomatic missions, including the Bahraini deputy ambassador to Washington.

Al-Jalahmah is scheduled to hold working meetings with a number of Israeli officials, and he will present his official credentials to Israeli President Yitzhak Herzow.

The Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, is scheduled to pay an official visit to Bahrain next September, as part of strengthening diplomatic relations between the two parties and pushing them forward at all levels.

Last March, Bahrain announced the appointment of Al-Jalahma as head of the diplomatic mission of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Israel. What the Israeli Foreign Ministry commented on at the time was “another important step in implementing the peace agreement and strengthening relations between the two countries.”

It is noteworthy that at the beginning of this year, Israel appointed its charge d’affaires to Bahrain, diplomat Itai Tagner, who met with Bahraini officials, most notably the Bahraini Foreign Ministry’s Undersecretary for International Affairs, Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa.

Israel had signed with the UAE and Bahrain two agreements of alliance and normalization of relations in the White House, under the auspices of former US President Donald Trump, in mid-September of last year 2020.