Cabinet ministers will soon be exposed to a new term - "exclusive economic zone" - and a new mission placed before the IDF, and will be asked to approve its financing. Until now the navy has protected Israel's territorial waters, which extend 23 kilometers beyond the coastline. Following the successful exploration of the "Tamar" and "Leviathan" gas fields, the navy now has the added...
A new, leviathan defense bill
Common sense dictates that a sizable chunk of the billions needed to guard the off-shore drilling rigs should come from the enormous profits reaped by the companies producing the gas. But it's almost certain that this will not happen.
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