AZERBAIJAN - Israel’s Gas Safety Net

As Israel’s gas exports to Egypt and Jordan have stopped and restarted three times since October 2023, Azerbaijan’s state oil company, known as SOCAR, has moved into every layer of Israel’s energy business at once.

Those positions came together publicly at the 31st Baku Energy Forum and the first Azerbaijan-US Economic Dialogue. They provide backup supply when Israeli gas goes offline, as it did for 32 days during the Hormuz war.

Israeli energy security analyst Elai Rettig of the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University wrote about the pattern in a paper published May 6. The 32-day shutdown of Leviathan and Karish during the Hormuz war was the third major disruption of Israeli gas exports since October 7, 2023.

Jordan, which draws roughly 68% of its electricity from natural gas and gets more than half of that from Israeli pipelines, paid an estimated $2.5 million a day in extra fuel costs during the March-April shutdown. Egypt’s bill for imported LNG tripled in the first quarter of 2026, from $560 million to $1.65 billion. Leviathan resumed exports on April 2, and Karish followed a week later.

The same Gulf-Azerbaijan business ties run in the other direction. ADNOC International holds 30% of the Absheron gas field, where SOCAR, TotalEnergies, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and BOTAŞ signed a 15-year, 33 billion-cubic-meter supply agreement with Turkey.

-themedialine.org, 4 June 2026

Commentary: It’s of interest that the world’s first mechanically drilled oil well was dug in 1848 in Azerbaijan.

In the attempt to recapture territory in 2020, some 3,000 Azerbaijani and about 4,000 Armenian soldiers were killed. Azerbaijan declared independence from the Soviet Union on 18 October 1991. Their 10+ million population overwhelmingly follows the religion of Islam.

Wikipedia adds: “Iranian Medes came to dominate the area to the south of the Aras River. The Medes forged a vast empire between 900 and 700 BC, which was integrated into the Achaemenid Empire around 550 BC.”

When reading this and similar articles, one quickly realizes that the world is racing toward globalism, as exhibited by the necessity of interdependence. In this case, Israel receives assistance from Azerbaijan. Israel’s neighbor to the south, Egypt, and in the west, Jordan, are in need of Israel’s gas supply. What was unthinkable several centuries ago, has become a reality today.

The greatest tragedy, however, is that mankind slowly but surely works and operates on the premise of independence from God the Creator. But the true Church continues to be established, grounded, and prepared for one specific unnamed moment: the Rapture.

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