JERUSALEM: Israel has struck an “historic” contract to supply natural gas to Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday, in a deal one firm said was worth $15 billion over 10 years.

“This will bring billions of dollars to state coffers,” Netanyahu said in a statement announcing the deal with Israel’s western neighbor, which in 1979 became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state.

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