(JTA) An Egyptian company will not resume delivering natural gas to Israel as expected, one month after its pipeline was sabotaged. The East Mediterranean Gas consortium, which supplies 45% of the gas needed to produce Israel's electricity, has missed four promised deadlines to reinstate the gas supply since the pipeline was damaged in a terrorist explosion Feb. 5. The Israel Electric Company requested permission from Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry to use diesel and fuel oil to run power plants.
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