SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

April 13, 2021

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

12655 North Central Expressway, Suite 1000, Dallas, TX 75243

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 214-221-4610

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the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

On April 10, 2021, Mr. Forrest A. Garb, age 91, passed away at home after several hospitalizations. Memorial services in Dallas, Texas will be held at Sparkman-Hillcrest for Mr. Garb, a member of the Board of Directors of Zion Oil and Gas, Inc. (the “Company”). He was appointed a director in November 2005 and served as Chairman of the Compensation Committee until his death.

Mr. Garb was a petroleum engineer who had provided independent consulting services for more than 45 years. His consulting career began with H.J. Gruy and Associates, Inc. and its successors, where he served as a vice president for four years, executive vice-president for ten years, and president for fifteen years, until leaving in 1986, following Gruy’s merger into a public company. In his capacity as president, Mr. Garb contracted, performed and supervised over 12,500 projects ranging from simple evaluations to sophisticated reservoir simulations. In 1988, Mr. Garb founded Forrest A. Garb & Associates, Inc., a privately-owned petroleum consulting firm, where he served as chairman and chief executive officer until his retirement in 2003 and sale of his interests in the company to its key employees.

Prior to entering into consulting, Mr. Garb was educated in petroleum engineering at Texas A&M University (BSc and Professional MSc) and received his early training at Socony Mobil Oil Company in Kansas, Texas, Louisiana and Venezuela. Mr. Garb was a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was a past President of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. He has been a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, the American Arbitration Association, the Petroleum Engineers Club of Dallas, the Dallas Geological Society, and was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He was a charter member of The American Institute of Minerals Appraisers. He was a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas. Mr. Garb’s petroleum engineering background and vast experience in the petroleum industry spanning over 45 years provided our Board with a valuable resource in assessing oil and gas prospects.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Mr. Garb with his own funds walked all over Israel with Israeli geologists searching for possible oil fields. For the government of Israel, he purchased a drilling rig in Louisiana, which he refurbished, and sent to Israel that started Israel’s first government-owned drilling company, Lapidot. His lifelong dream was to find oil and gas for Israel.

(Psalm 116:15)

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereto duly authorized.