Wist je dat Israel op de Golanhoogten boort naar olie? En daar genoeg olie vond om jaren vooruit te kunnen? Het bedrijf wat daar de (proef)boringen doet is Afek Oil and Gas Company. Israel claimde de Golanhoogten van Syrië tijdens de Zesdaagse Oorlog van 1967. Israël veroverde het grootste deel van het gebied op Syrië en annexeerde de Syrische Golan officieel in 1981. Sinds de
niet-erkende Israëlische annexatie in 1981 zijn er op de Golanhoogten talrijke Israëlische nederzettingen van Joodse kolonisten gesticht, illegaal onder het volkenrecht.
'Genie Energy Ltd. is an American energy company headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. It is a holding company comprising IDT Energy, a retail energy provider, Afek Oil and Gas which controls the company's oil and gas exploratory project in Northern Israel and the Golan Heights region, and Genie Oil and Gas which is an oil shale company developing projects in Colorado, Israel and Mongolia. Genie was part of IDT Corporation but was spun off on October 31, 2011, at which point Class B common stock of Genie Energy Ltd. began trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "GNE". [1]
Genie's founder, chairman, controlling shareholder and CEO is Howard Jonas. Avi Goldin serves as the company's CFO and Geoffrey Rochwarger serves as Vice Chairman. The president of its Israeli subsidiary is Effie Eitam.
Genie Energy's Strategic advisory board is composed of: Dick Cheney (former vice president of the United States), Rupert Murdoch (media mogul and chairman of News Corp), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury), Jacob Rothschild and Michael Steinhardt (an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist to Jewish causes). [2]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Energy en
http://www.mintpressnews.com/western-firms-plan-to-cash-in-on-syrias-oil-and-gas-frontier/211703/
En: Israel, according to the Channel 2 report, uses some 270,00 barrels of oil per day. The importance of a discovery of oil of this magnitude, could potentially translate into a more self-reliant Israel. Recently, however, an Italian company made a “mega gas discovery” in Egypt of up to 30 trillion cubic feet, reported Reuters. This news will likely be a blow to Israel’s economy, bent on exporting its 3.9-billion barrel Leviathan field, to Egypt.
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http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194012/billions-of-barrels-of-israeli-oil-tapped-the-golan-heights
http://www.timesofisrael.com/oil-exploration-in-golan-gets-two-year-extension/