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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-898544
Azerbaijan Becomes Israel's Gas Buffer
(Media Line-Jerusalem Post) Jacob Wirtschafter - When Israel's gas exports to Egypt and Jordan were stopped and restarted three times since Oct. 2023, as it did for 32 days during the Hormuz war, Azerbaijan's state oil company, SOCAR, kept Israel linked to its regional customers, shipping three cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Egypt each month. Egyptian lawmaker Mohamed Fouad said SOCAR is meant to supplement Israeli pipeline gas, not replace it. Egypt's December 2025 agreement with Israel for 130 billion cubic meters of pipeline gas over 15 years, worth $35 billion, remains "structurally irreplaceable."