Norman A. Bailey

Amidst the almost unbroken gloom and doom (mostly well-justified) about just about everything in our fracturing world it is a pleasure, for a change, to write about a development that is almost entirely good news. Israel, for the first 50 years of its existence, was almost totally devoid of natural resources, with the exception of […]

For many decades a joke has made the rounds in the Jewish world: “Hashem gave the land of milk and honey to the descendants of Isaac, but he gave the oil and gas to the descendants of Ishmael”. The humor, of course, resides in the fact that, as commodities, oil and gas are much more […]