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The brother of Elon Musk and Tesla board member is also a restaurateur and longtime ‘real food’ advocate

>> so there are little bits of the dead sea in cars and soda cans and -- >> exactly. >> so you got, what, 20 employees? >> 20 employees work here. >> meanwhile, at the other end of the lake, sam would love to expand the company his dad built. he says he's got a great product. >> it's pure, it has 21 different minerals that you don't see in other salts. >> oh, yeah. oh, that's nice. >> i love my salt, man. >> me too. >> and since he took his product to the fancy food show, he says he has plenty of demand. >> i have a bowl of tomatoes and all the sea salt i brought with me to the dead sea and i ...

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 mi...

Pond of a giant potassium mind. >> this is the water of the dead sea. the dead sea used to be there. >> would you be willing to take home less of a profit if it meant saving this body of water for an extra century or two? >> i think that government should look for long-term always. >> you'd pay more for that concession, if they asked? >> i didn't say that. you're asking me one thing, now asking a different thing. >> back up north, sam just wants everyone taking water from the dead sea to be mindful of the collective impacts. >> it's okay to have great businesses and be prosperous, but at the s...

Company, owned by a chicago-born 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 noah 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 ...