Review
"...a man with the guts of a gambler, was engaged in the most characteristic of Israeli pursuits..." -- The Forward, July 2005
"...contains a wealth of amusing anecdotal material..." -- Barney Smith, Oilbarrel.com, April 2005
"...reads like a detective story peppered with the rich and famous, like Mark Rich, the Rothschilds and the Bronfmans." -- - The Jerusalem Post, Diana Lerner
17 December 2004
"Alexander performs a valuable service of unveiling an important but little known chapter in Israel's struggle for survival and independence." -- - Binyamin Netanyahu
Minister of Finance
Former Prime Minister of Israel
"Alexander, the first businessman to bring to Israel, non-Jewish oilmen from the US, executed oil drilling in Israel." -- The Jerusalem Post, July 2005
"Follow Alexander as he places Israel on the map in oil money making history." -- -- Miami Entertainment News & Views
20 December 2004
"The Government’s refusal to take any opportunity that came... cannot but raise a familiar smile on the reader’s face." -- - Yossi Vardi Musaf Sefarim Ha'aretz
2 February, 2005
"...contains a wealth of amusing anecdotal material..." -- Barney Smith, Oilbarrel.com, April 2005
"...reads like a detective story peppered with the rich and famous, like Mark Rich, the Rothschilds and the Bronfmans." -- - The Jerusalem Post, Diana Lerner
17 December 2004
"Alexander performs a valuable service of unveiling an important but little known chapter in Israel's struggle for survival and independence." -- - Binyamin Netanyahu
Minister of Finance
Former Prime Minister of Israel
"Alexander, the first businessman to bring to Israel, non-Jewish oilmen from the US, executed oil drilling in Israel." -- The Jerusalem Post, July 2005
"Follow Alexander as he places Israel on the map in oil money making history." -- -- Miami Entertainment News & Views
20 December 2004
"The Government’s refusal to take any opportunity that came... cannot but raise a familiar smile on the reader’s face." -- - Yossi Vardi Musaf Sefarim Ha'aretz
2 February, 2005
Product Description
Zvi Alexander was a member of a small group that established the oil industry in Israel,providing the State with this vital fluid, and searching for oil in Israel and other countries.
'Oil', Alexander's personal story, is also the story of the Israeli oil industry; how Alexander was the first to bring to Israel non-Jewish oil businessmen from the USA; how these businessmen, along with Israel's 'National Oil Company' under Alexander's management, funded and executed oil drilling in Israel; and how Alexander's activities brought 'Signal', an international oil company based in the USA, to invest a large amount of money in Israel's 'National Oil Company', despite the Arab embargo. After the Yom Kippur War, Alexander sold the company for $16.5 million.
