Israeli minister warns of regional push to exclude Jewish state from global trade
Transport Minister Miri Regev wrote a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two weeks ago in which she warned against regional commercial initiatives to bypass Israel via new supply routes, Channel 12 reported on Friday.…
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Transport Minister Miri Regev warns that new regional trade and energy partnerships are deliberately bypassing Israel, posing a strategic threat. She ties this to a recent Washington-Tehran interim agreement that she says leaves Israel unable to act. The proposed Saudi Arabia-Turkey railway via Jordan exemplifies the infrastructure projects that could exclude Israel from emerging supply routes.