palestinian named sam hallack. >> this is the only palestinian address on the dead sea. >> that's right. we are the last of the mohicans. >> at the other end of the lake is the massive fertilizer factories of dead sea works. these are part of a $7 billion israeli chemicals empire run by noam goldstein. >> how would you characterize the profitability of an operation this big? >> this is a perfect plant. >> every year his operation pumps 42 billion gallons of water out of the deeper sections of the dead sea into 60 square miles of shallow ponds. after that water evaporates, they vacuum up the millions of tons of minerals that go into everything from fertilizer and pesticide to soda cans and car engines.