"We have gas reserves that we are now exporting and we'd like to expedite more gas exports to Europe through Italy," Netanyahu said after meeting Meloni on Friday. The Euronews website noted that Israel began exporting gas after discovering several reservoirs off its coast in the early 2010s. "We are already cooperating in gas with your national company (energy giant ENI) but we want to expand. "Italy aims to become the European gas hub and Israel must be the point of strength for gas production," he said. (We) will address perhaps a dozen areas of mutual cooperation to the benefit of Italy and Israel alike," he said.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 14, 2023 07:55 UTC