Zion Oil & Gas to Re-Enter the Elijah #3 Well in Northern Israel

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc.

announced today that, on June 28, 2012, it signed an agreement with Lapidoth Israel Oil Prospectors Corp. Ltd ("Lapidoth") regarding further exploratory work to be performed in Zion's Asher-Menashe License area in northern Israel. Under the terms of the workover agreement, in July 2012, Lapidoth will mobilize their Franks 750 drilling rig to Zion's temporarily suspended Elijah #3 well. The planned work program includes re-entering the existing wellbore, partially drilling out the existing plug, acquiring electric log data via wireline, acquiring vertical seismic profile data, and possibly obtaining sidewall core samples.