SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Israel will require several years before it can significantly increase its natural gas supplies to Europe, the country’s energy ministry said on Friday. Israel and neighboring Egypt had signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Union in June to ship more gas to the bloc as it seeks to diversify away from Russia. Asked when new supplies would be delivered under that framework deal, Lior Schillat, the director-general of the Ministry of Energy, said it would be a while. “In the short term, there will be some increase but the big numbers will come l…