Israel natural gas

Israel launches new search for natural gas in the Mediterranean Sea

The new gas exploration process comes alongside plans for a 150km. electricity cable linking southern and central Israel.

 View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019.
SOLDIERS WATCH as a US destroyer conducts an operation with the Israeli Navy.

Israel Navy commandos, submarines train to protect Eilat from invasion

Israel Natural Gas Lines employee trapped in flooded river in southern Israel, November 25, 2025.

Severe nationwide floods in Israel as dozens rescued, security fence section collapses

A meeting of energy ministers from Greece, Cyprus, the United States, and Israel, November 6, 2025.

Israel to Europe gas pipeline idea back on table, Minister Eli Cohen tells 'Post'


Netanyahu after Court throws wrench into gas deal: Gov't must be given tools to govern

"We were elected to bring results to the citizens, and we need the tools to do that," Netanyahu says at cabinet meeting.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, March 20, 2016

ANALYSIS: Why gas deal opponents shouldn’t celebrate yet

The many critics of the deal had plenty to dislike in the imperfect gas outline, which by admission of even its most ardent supporters was a compromise.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the High Court on the gas deal

Our World: Israel’s democratic collapse

Netanyahu must act immediately to pass legislation to curb the court’s authority and restore the powers of the public’s elected representatives.

Israel’s natural gas

Comment: Drilling for hard truths in the stalled gas deal

The Start-Up Nation looks today a bit more like a banana republic, and we’re all to blame.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confronts High Court to defend natural gas policy in unprecedented personal appearance.

Gas bombshell: Netanyahu's policy struck down by High Court

Government to be given one year to fix the problematic aspects of the gas deal, which was declared unconstitutional.

Israel’s natural gas

Israeli market made gas monopoly probable, says BOI report

The battle over how to regulate the companies extracting gas from Israel's reserves has been a long and bruising one, and has gone all the way to the Supreme Court.

Tamar gas field‏

The hunt for alternative ways to power Israel

The chief scientist at the National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources Ministry says the base of power production in Israel “will always come from fossil fuels.”

A power station is seen in Ashdod

Gas deal backlash as Zionist Union submits High Court petition

MKs are angry that PM Benjamin Netanyahu activated the gas deal by invoking Aricle 52, a controversial legal clause.

The Knesset plenum

Knesset panel: Gas deal should not advance

Netanyahu warns against ‘severe security challenge’ without plan.

Knesset panel discussing the gas deal

Tamar, Leviathan partners: Egyptian gas sale negotiations still underway

The negotiations are being conducted with commercial companies, not the Egyptian national gas companies.

Israel Navy missile ship patrols near gas field‏