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Article: Moses's oily blessing; Israel.(Will Israel find oil)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2005
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Two seekers for oil in Israel may be getting close to the prize
"MOSES dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil", quipped Golda Meir, one of Israel's prime ministers. Now two men hope to prove that not only is there oil, but that Moses pointed to it.
In the 1980s John Brown, a Catholic Texan cutting-tools executive, and Tovia Luskin, a Russian Jewish geophysicist and career oilman, both had religious epiphanies. Mr Brown became a born-again Christian, while Mr Luskin joined the orthodox Jewish Lubavitch movement. Soon after, each found inspiration in chapter 33 of the book of ...