Israel natural gas

WATCH; Netanyahu visits Leviathan gas platform as Israel projects NIS 350 billion in energy revenue

During a visit to the Leviathan gas platform, Netanyahu touted natural gas as a strategic national asset, highlighting billions in state revenue, savings for Israeli families, and diplomatic benefits.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu, Energy and Infrastructure Minster Eli Cohen  visit the Leviathan gas platform, October 22, 2026.
 View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019.

Israel launches new search for natural gas in the Mediterranean Sea

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


Shaked slams High Court 'hypocrisy': Why didn't they strike down the Oslo Accords?

Justice minister slams Court for striking down Netanyahu's gas policy, saying she fears that the world will start to view Israel as a "country which eats its investors."

Ayelet Shaked, nouvelle ministre de la Justice

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