The Golan Heights, by the way, is the home to some excellent wine grapes.
Also oil it seems:
The following year, the Petroleum Council of Israel’s Ministry of Energy and Water Resources secretly awarded a drilling license covering half the area of the Golan Heights to a local subsidiary of New Jersey-based Genie Energy Ltd. headed by Effi Eitam.[221][222]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights#Oil_and_gas_exploration
Who is this mysterious Genie Energy group?
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), Bill Richardson (former Governor of New Mexico, ex-ambassador to the United Nations and United States Energy Secretary)[2], Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild,[3][2], and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Energy