Israeli Minister of Energy, Yuval
Steinitz, also a member of Israel's cabinet, said on Monday that they "are planning a large-scale military operation in Gaza," adding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working "firmly but in a wise and deliberate manner."
"Iran has begun - while it is a moderate rise right now - but it has begun to raise, to break out of the uranium enrichment curbs that were imposed on it," Yuval
Steinitz, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet, told Israel's Ynet TV.
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval
Steinitz Friday sounded skeptical of a deal between the two countries.
Israeli Energy Minister Yuval
Steinitz welcomed the plan, saying that it looks "promising".
Parting with the silence, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval
Steinitz said that, in the Gulf, "things are heating up." "If there's some sort of conflagration between Iran and the United States, between Iran and its neighbors, I'm not ruling out that they will activate Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, or even that they will try to fire missiles from Iran at the State of Israel,"
Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu's security cabinet, told Israel's Ynet TV.
The international arbitration case between Egypt and Israel over natural gas trading could be resolved in the upcoming months, Israel's Energy Minister Yuval
Steinitz said on Sunday.
Exxon execs held discussions with Israel Energy Minister Yuval
Steinitz in Houston this week about bidding for the right to explore and pump oil from offshore blocks in an auction that Israel plans to hold in June, Bousso reports.
Quoting daily business newspaper TheMarker, Haaretz said Israeli Energy Minister Yuval
Steinitz told Cypriot leaders on Tuesday that Israel wants 5 per cent or more from the joint Aphrodite-Yishai natural gas field in the southeast.
Bulgarian Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova has told Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Resources Yuval
Steinitz that Bulgaria was interested in buying natural gas from Israel through the Greek hookup to a natural gas pipeline from Israel to Europe.
Richard
Steinitz, now an emeritus professor of the university, launched the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 1978 and was artistic director for its first 23 years.