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TEL AVIV – Among the dossiers at the center of the premier’s official visit Mario Draghi in Israel there is the question of gas supplies. The discovery of natural gas fields on the Mediterranean coast of Israel was a miracle for the Jewish state, in which, curiously, there is also an Italian connection: Itzhak Tshuvathe Israeli entrepreneur who conducted the explorations and excavations, is a Jew born in Tripoli, whose family lived under Italian Libya until they were forced, like most of the local Jewish community, to flee to Israel .