Gidon Tadmor
By CHARLES LEVINSON And GUY CHAZAN
TEL AVIV—Two years ago, Ratio Oil Exploration LP, an energy firm here, employed five people and was worth about half a million dollars.
Operations in Noble Energy's Leviathan gas field, the world's biggest deepwater gas find in a decade.
Today it sits at the center of a gas bonanza that has investors, international oil companies, Israeli politicians and even Hezbollah, Israel's sworn enemy, clamoring for a piece of the action.
What did I say then?
This Rebel Came Armed With a Balance Sheet (2 years 24 weeks ago): By JOHN STEELE GORDON
When most people think about the American Revolution, they think about the remarkable ideals that lay behind it and that guide the country still, or they think of the war itself, with Gen. Washington's men freezing and half-starved at Valley Forge.
What doesn't come to mind very often is how the Revolution was paid for. "Wars are fought with silver bullets," according to a Chinese saying, meaning that the side with the most money usually wins. But in...
