Egypt imports gas from Israel's Leviathan and Tamar fields. A deal for about 130 bcm through 2040 won Israeli approval in December 2025. When Israel shut Leviathan and Karish on 28 February 2026, the shortfall reached Egypt's grid — the dependency the war made visible.
Israel and the Levant relied on economically by Egypt and the Levant. A directional arrangement: the two parties do not hold the same position in it. Authored once and read from both ends.
الترتيب
- الحالة
- نشطساري المفعول وقيد العمل. لا يقول شيئًا عن مدى نجاحه في العمل، ولا عن الاتجاه الذي يسير فيه.آخر تغيير جوهري: 2025-12-17.
- ما يغطيه
- الطاقةالتجارةالبنية التحتيةفئات وثّقت المصادر أن الترتيب يشملها. ليست مقياسًا: فالعلاقة التي تغطي عددًا أكبر منها توصف بتفصيل أكبر، ولا تُعدّ أرسخ.
ملخص
Israeli gas has flowed to Egypt since 2020. In August 2025 the Leviathan partners agreed with Egyptian buyers to supply about 130 bcm through 2040, worth about $35bn: a first phase of 20 bcm from 2026, and a second of 110 bcm that depends on expanding Leviathan's output. Israel's government approved the export on 17 December 2025. On 28 February 2026, the opening day of the war with Iran, Israel shut the Leviathan and Karish fields as a precaution; Leviathan restarted after about a month. Power shortfalls were reported in Egypt and Jordan, which both import Israeli gas. The same precaution had shut the fields during the June 2025 war.
لماذا يهم
Egypt is a ceasefire guarantor and Gaza's southern neighbour, and it also depends on Israeli gas that Israel switches off when it is attacked. The dependency runs through every regional escalation, and it is one reason Cairo's interest in stability on Israel's fronts is material as well as political.
الأحداث ذات الصلة
- حرب إيران تُغلق معابر غزة وتوقف الغاز البحري الإسرائيلي 28 فبراير – أبريل 2026
Humanitarian · Energy · Economic
ما لا يزال مجهولًا
- The supply contract is commercial and unpublished; the volumes and value are those reported at signature.
- Whether Karish restarted after April 2026, and whether the fields were shut again later in the war, is not established.
- The scale of Egypt's dependence relative to its other sources, including liquefied gas imports, is not measured here.
قراءات تدعمها الأدلة أيضًا
- The shutdowns can be read as evidence of Egypt's exposure, or as the reason Egypt diversifies its supply; the record states the dependency and its interruption, not its future weight.
مُدرجة لأن تقييم السجل نفسه ليس التقييم الوحيد الذي تسمح به مصادره — لا بوصفها تحوّطًا من التقييم أعلاه.
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التقييم حتى — 2026-04 آخر مراجعة — 2026-10-11