The Mari-B offshore natural gas field will not be returned to the state after it is all tapped out during the next two years; instead it will continue to be in the service of the two companies that run it today: Yitzhak Tshuva's Delek Group and the American firm Noble Energy.
Landau awards Mari-B rights without a tender
Landau's announcement, just six weeks before the coming Knesset election, is in practice the transfer of a public asset worth billions of shekels to private hands - without any compensation - and in an unprecedented process carried out extremely quickly.
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Itai Trilnick
Avi Bar-Eli


