MANAMA, Bahrain (AFP) — Israel’s top diplomat Yair Lapid opened the Jewish state’s embassy in Bahrain Thursday, a year after the US-brokered normalisation of ties. “We have officially opened the Israeli embassy in Bahrain,” tweeted Lapid. “We agreed that by the end of the year, there will be the opening of the Bahraini embassy in Israel.” © Agence France-Presse