Netanyahu leaves for the US to attend WH ceremony

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Washington on Sunday ahead of a White House ceremony to mark the establishment of full relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Bahrain on Friday agreed to normalise relations with Israel, becoming the latest Arab nation to do so as part of a broader diplomatic push by President Donald Trump and his administration to further ease the Jewish state's relative isolation in the Middle East and find common ground with nations that share US wariness of Iran.

Bahrain's foreign minister will attend US President Trump's White House event on Tuesday and sign a separate agreement with Netanyahu.