Israel's prime minister: Med pipeline would be 'revolution'
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June 16, 2017
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised Thursday to promote plans for an ambitious Mediterranean undersea natural gas pipeline project, in a bid by his country to become a key European energy supplier.
Israel is hoping to export much of its newly discovered natural gas to Europe by a proposed 2,200-kilometer (1,350-mile) undersea pipeline to Cyprus and Greece.
"It's something we're very excited about," Netanyahu said in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city.
"Of course the idea of the East Med pipeline would be a revolution. We've had preliminary stu...
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