The main regulation in Israel - the Mines Ordinance - predates the formation of the country (1922); as a result, one reads with some humour the right of the exploration licence holder "to herd no more than twenty riding animals or beasts of burden that are clean of diseases onto public land adjacent to the licenced land for free." Nevertheless, unlike Jordan, Israel's mining law has little else that is quaint about it; it persistently fails to address key concerns of the international investor in virtually every category of analysis.