Bahrain Mirror: 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.

At the invitation of Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Lapid will travel to Manama where the two will inaugurate the Israeli embassy and sign a series of bilateral agreements, the Israeli Foreign Ministry says in a statement.

The foreign minister will be accompanied on his trip by Foreign Ministry Director General Alon Ushpiz and Deputy Director General for Middle Eastern Affairs Oded Yossef.

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