Yesterday night, Primary Minister Naftali Bennett ended a short visit to Bahrain, through which he held meetings with, between some others, with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, his son Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and a number of govt ministers.

At his meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Zayed bin Rashid Al Zayani, and Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed, an agreement on investigate and advancement between Israel and Bahrain was announced. The settlement was signed for Israel remotely by Minister of Science, Engineering and House Orit Farkash-Hacohen.

Bennett welcomed the agreement and explained that the objective of the two nations now was to give content material to the Abraham Accords through trade and economic cooperation concerning them. The key minister and the Bahraini ministers talked, amid other points, about strategies of exploiting the geographical strengths of Israel and Bahrain in the movement of merchandise in between Asia and Europe.

The new settlement phone calls for the Israel Innovation Authority to function with the Bahrainis on cooperation in investigate and growth and on pilot courses of Israeli corporations in regions of large priority for both of those countries, these as climate technological know-how, electrical power effectiveness, e-commerce, sophisticated generation techniques, and far more.

Farkash-Hacohen reported at the signing ceremony that Israel’s technologies marketplace was a strategic international relations asset. “The arrangement produces a platform for technological and commercial cooperation, along with own acquaintance amongst people from the two nations around the world. Youthful Israelis in the Israeli technology field will appear to Bahrain and get to know the local businesspeople,” she claimed.

In its announcement, Farkash-Hacohen’s bureau explained that talks would get started on an expenditure defense agreement concerning the finance ministries of the two countries. This agreement will allow the stream of investment decision concerning the nations around the world to grow by building a framework of certainty and protection for companies, and will be an significant resource for strengthening economic ties.

In Bennett’s meetings in Bahrain, security and strategic concerns have been talked over at size. Bahrain, which has a Shi’ite the greater part, suffers from Iranian encouragement and support for opposition teams, some of them terrorist businesses. Simply because of this, it is substantially a lot more prepared for stability ties with Israel than the UAE. Past month, Minister of Protection Benny Gantz signed a safety cooperation agreement with Bahrain, and among other things it was agreed that an IDF liaison officer would be stationed in Bahrain.




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Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa advised Bennett that the historic accomplishment of the Abraham Accords made it feasible to imagine “a broader Middle East, cost-free of disputes, centered on concepts of mutual regard, knowledge, and joint duty for the safety of the complete region.”

Bennett also met the commander of the US Fifth Fleet, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper. The Fifth Fleet’s property port is in Bahrain, and the Israel Navy not long ago participated in physical exercises with the Sixth Fleet and navies of other nations around the world, including Saudi Arabia.

In an job interview with Bahraini newspaper Alayam, Bennett claimed, “Israel and Bahrain are the two working with important protection difficulties that stem from the same supply – the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is undermining security in the whole area. It supports terrorist businesses that work in your area and in ours, with a single goal: to destroy the reasonable states, that are anxious for their peoples, for stability and for peace, and set in their put bloodthirsty terrorist companies. We will not allow for this. We are battling Iran and its proxies in the area each individual working day, and we will help our friends in strengthening their peace, protection and stability as substantially as necessary.”

Bennett did not rule out direct Israeli navy support to pleasant nations around the world in the Gulf. “Israel is a sizeable regional military services ability, and has unparalleled operational abilities in the air, at sea, and on land. We are eager to broaden cooperation with our friends in the area in buy to improve its security and safety,” he explained.

On the US moves to return to the nuclear agreement with Iran, Bennett stated, “President Biden has been a real good friend of Israel for about fifty decades, and he understands our stability requirements extremely nicely. We believe that an settlement with Iran will be a strategic slip-up, since it will empower Iran to hold its nuclear capabilities and obtain hundreds of billions of pounds that will gasoline its terror machine, which hurts so quite a few nations around the world in the area, and all-around the earth.”

Published by Globes, Israel small business information – en.globes.co.il – on February 16, 2022.

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