JERUSALEM: Israel’s Finance Ministry said on Sunday that it would build a 158-mile fibre-optic cable between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, making a continuous connection between Europe, Gulf, and Asian countries. EAPC will build the Fibre-optic along the route of an oil pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, the ministry said.
Israel will Build Fibre-optic Linkage Between Europe and Asia
Head of the EAPC project Itzik Levy claimed that it would position Israel as a communication land bridge linking the Gulf nations and Asia to Europe, Reuters reported. EAPC offers its pipeline as a substitute to the Suez Canal. Environmental and climate groups have long called it a threat and quizzed the firm’s safety record. Most remarkably, in 2014 a pipeline crack flooded a desert nature reserve with 5 million litres of oil.
