[Stewart Meadows]

Bahrain will normalize ties with Israel, Trump announces


By Ron Kampeas September 11, 2020 1:48 pm

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Bahrain will normalize ties with Israel at a White House ceremony next week, President Donald Trump said Friday on Twitter, less than a month after the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize ties with the Jewish state.

Trump said at the White House that he believed more Arab nations would soon sign on to normalization with Israel, and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner outlined a strategy to the dealmaking: Removing the issue of Palestine as a top priority for Arabs and Muslims, as it has been for decades.

“Another HISTORIC breakthrough today!” Trump exclaimed in his Twitter announcement. “Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain agree to a Peace Deal – the second Arab country to make peace with Israel in 30 days!”

https://www.jta.org/2020/09/11/israe...rump-announces

Bahraini Jews constitute one of the world's smallest Jewish communities. Today the community has a synagogue, though disused, and a small Jewish cemetery.[1] Various sources number Bahrain's Jewish community as being from 36 to 50 people.[2]
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Jews are one of several communities that form the core of the liberal middle classes and several are even active in politics. A Jewish businessman, Ebrahim Daoud Nonoo, sat on the appointed upper house of the Bahraini Parliament's Shura Council. In 2005, he was replaced by his niece, Houda Ezra Nonoo. Since 2004, Ms. Nonoo also headed the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society[12] which has campaigned against the reintroduction of the death penalty in the tiny kingdom. Neither is considered a controversial figure, even among Salafist politicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...ews_in_Bahrain