Among Israelis the joke has always been that when Moses led his people out of Egypt had he’d turned right he would have discovered Saudi’s energy riches. Instead he turned left and got a “land of milk and honey.” But a recent natural gas discovery 50 miles off the Israeli coast near Haifa may have finally laid that old joke to rest. In January, Houston-based Noble Energy, having returned to drilling the offshore Tamar field just months before, announced the discovery of three massive gas fields. Speaking about the find, Yitzhak Tsuva, owner of the Delek Group, a partner in the Tamar No. 1 well, called the find “one of the biggest in the world” and a “historic landmark in the economic independence of Israel.”