# Israeli developers sign a major gas-export deal toward Egypt

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 19 February 2018 partners in Tamar and Leviathan signed a deal worth tens of billions to export Israeli gas toward Egypt, with [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) publicly hailing it.

## Context

Delek, Noble, and Egypt’s Dolphinus sat. Neighbouring Leviathan start is 2019. He did not lay the pipe.

Leviathan 2019 is the production child. Abraham 2020 is a different diplomatic file.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

Prime Minister's Office of Israel carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is energy security and natural-gas diversification: a completed export contract is a dated regional energy instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 19 February 2018 Israeli–Egyptian gas-export signing, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later Egyptian household-tariff coefficient, or that every later cargo was this hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He politically owned and announced the strategic frame. Egypt’s buyer sat.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Israeli developers sign a major gas-export deal toward Egypt, not a later speech about Israeli developers sign a major gas-export deal toward Egypt.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Israeli developers sign a major gas-export deal toward Egypt on 2018-02-19 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister's Office of Israel communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Israeli developers sign a major gas-export deal toward Egypt into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Companies signed. He politically owned and announced the strategic frame. Egypt’s buyer sat. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security
- Natural-Gas Supply Diversification: https://factrail.ai/drivers/natural-gas-supply-diversification

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-egypt-natgas-idUSKCN1G31BK
- https://www.gov.il/en

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-egypt-gas-2018