The Bahrainis met with government officials and visited holy sites in Jerusalem before seeing other cultural, religious and historic places throughout Israel during their whirlwind tour.
During his meeting with the Israeli foreign minister, King Hamad hailed the normalization agreement as a 'historical achievement on the road to just and lasting peace in the Middle East.'
'As warm as these relations are, we must remember that there is another big brother in the area, which is Iran,' says Mideast expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar.
'I never thought that I would live to see the day that Bahrain and Israel would establish political, diplomatic ties with each other,' says Ahdeya Al Sayed.
'Just as we would think it unfathomable to dialogue with the KKK, or to accommodate the KKK, so too we must stop coddling Israeli settler-colonialism,' according to a Times op-ed.
'This day will be added to the Palestinian calendar of pain and Arab calendar of defeats,' said Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.