Podcast: Tony Badran Puts Israel’s New Maritime Borders with Lebanon into Context

On October 12, 2022, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid approved an agreement with the government of Lebanon to establish maritime borders between the two countries. The deal, brokered by the United States, is important because large fields of natural gas have been discovered under the seabed of the Israel-Lebanon coast—and whichever country controls these fields can reap financial and energy benefits from them.