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![Ex-Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush met with Israel’s then-Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in 2023 [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_330x185/public/1239097952.jpeg?h=a5f2f23a&itok=DprkrP7F)
![Israeli Foreign Minister Cohen joined his Bahraini counterpart Abdellatif Zayani to open the embassy [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2023-09/GettyImages-1645161682.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=EmARt2EH)
![Eli Cohen (right) met his Bahraini counterpart Abdellatif bin Rashid al-Zayani [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2023-09/GettyImages-1643343294.jpg?h=f1ab2463&itok=40CJ4BFj)
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![Eli Cohen said that Saudi Arabia was likely to normalise ties with Israel [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2023-04/GettyImages-1250760021.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=p6qPtbsY)
![Miri Regev [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/media/images/4C4AE014-CE68-48C3-901F-59444F308A9F.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=X6DxcYtD "Miri Regev [AFP]")