From Haaretz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared before a panel of justices from the High Court of Justice on Sunday to defend his government’s plan for the development of Israel’s major offshore natural gas reserves. The court is considering challenges to the plan, which gives control of the major offshore Tamar field, which is currently in production, and the much larger Leviathan field which is not yet producing gas, to a cartel led by Houston-based Noble Energy and Israel’s Delek Group.
The court rejected the petitioners’ request that they be allowed to question the prime minister in court. At the end of his remarks, Netanyahu left the courtroom without being asked any questions by the panel of justices.
