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Arutz Sheva September 16, 2020 From the legislation against Hezbollah, to meetings at the peace workshop. These are the events which led up to the agreement with Bahrain. 2013 – 2015 King Hamad led the effort for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to legislate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Following his success in doing so, he told Rabbi Schneier (later appointed as a special advisor to King Hamad in 2018) during a meeting in his palace in Manama in 2016 that “our only hope for a strong...

Al Arabiya English By: Emily Judd September 15, 2020 Bahrain and Israel will sign a historic agreement of normalization on Tuesday, but in the last three years, the countries have interacted in various ways – from interfaith trips to security conferences. Here are seven events that paved the way to Tuesday’s landmark moment: December 2017: Interfaith group from Bahrain visits Israel An interfaith group from Bahrain traveled to Israel for a three-day visit on December 12, 2017. The 25 participants...

Le Monde September 14, 2020 L’Arabie saoudite approuve la reconnaissance par Bahreïn de l’Etat hébreu, sans lui emboîter le pas. Le prince héritier de Bahreïn, Salman ben Hamad Al-Khalifa, et le haut conseiller du président américain Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, à Manama (Bahreïn), le 1er septembre. BAHRAIN NEW AGENCY / VIA REUTERS C’est le trophée que Benyamin Nétanyahou rêve de décrocher. Si les Emirats arabes unis (EAU) et Bahreïn ont offert une belle victoire politique au premier ministre israélien...

Christian Broadcast Network (CBN) By: Julie Stahl September 14, 2020 JERUSALEM, Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in the US Monday to attend Tuesday’s signing of Israel’s historic peace agreement with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. “We now have two historic peace agreements, with two Arab countries, which were established in one month. I am certain that we all welcome the new era. We are at the threshold of a new era,” Netanyahu said before leaving for the US on Sunday....

GLZ September 13, 2020 FFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier was interviewed by Efi Triger in GLZ Radio for Good Morning Israel. Click here to listen to the original interview.

Agence France-Presse September 12, 2020 Bahrain’s move to formally establish relations with Israel could not have happened without Saudi Arabia’s green light, another step in what observers call Riyadh’s “alternative normalisation” of ties with the Jewish state. Bahrain on Friday became Saudi Arabia’s second Gulf ally to announce plans to formalise relations with Israel over the past month, after the United Arab Emirates’ landmark agreement. The move put...

Times of Israel September 12, 2020 A New York rabbi with ties to Bahrain’s king says there’s “momentum” among Gulf states states to establish relations with Israel, after Manama followed Abu Dhabi in agreeing to normalization with Jerusalem. “In the Gulf there’s momentum for peace with Israel. It’s a matter of when with Oman and also with Saudi Arabia. [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed Bin Salman and his brothers said they can’t establish themselves as a power without Israel,” Rabbi Marc Schneier tells...

Globes September 12, 2020 Click here to read the original article.

The Jerusalem Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier September 12, 2020 In the last few years, Bahrain’s former foreign minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa tweeted his support for Israel’s military operation to expose and destroy Hezbollah’s cross-border tunnels. I’ve enjoyed a close relationship with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain for more than a decade and I am honored to have been the first rabbi in the royal palace when he invited me back in 2011. In our various conversations as well...

24/7 News September 11, 2020 Manama: The establishment of diplomatic ties between the Kingdom of Bahrain and Israel will open a new era of cooperation in social, economic and cultural sectors. “Mazel Tov and Mabrouk to Israel and Bahrain on this historic announcement on establishing diplomatic relations. Throughout my close relationship with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain for more than a decade, this is something we have discussed many times and I have heard him talk repeatedly about...