I must have missed that =from the article; "Zion Oil & Gas recently announced its interest in developing a large shale oil deposit 30 miles west of Jerusalem."
is that in a podcast i didnt listen to? not in any written materials i read

there have been oil wells reaching oil over 4000 ft deep ca 30 miles w of jerusalem but for the last many years ZN has focused farther north

all those big especially gas discoveries have been in the med sea of course but ZN's present license area is an intersection of the logical continuation of the more northern leviathon and oil bearing strata which proceed S from syria