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When the agent arrived in Tehran, there was no one to greet him and deliver the deer.
The Shah and his family had fled the country and the revolution was moments away from erupting.
The agent was told to return home to Israel immediately.
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In Dec. 1978, The Israel Nature & Parks authority received an unexpected phone call from the Shah of Iran who told them to send a Mossad agent to Tehran immediately to retrieve the deer.
At this point the winds of the revolution were already blowing in Iran.
📸Dvir Sheinover
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During this time, Israel & the Shah of Iran negotiated a deal to bring two members of the herd to Israel, but nearly two decades later & the deer remained in Iran.
Israeli authorities nearly gave up hope that the Fallow Deer would ever make it to Israel until..
📸Ben Rosenberg
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Here we go:
The Persian Fallow Dear which dominated the Israeli landscape during biblical times went extinct in the earlier twentieth century.
In the 1950's a tiny herd was discovered in Iran.
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A mossad mission, a clandestine flight and six #Persian fallow deer.
We're about to tell you an unbelievable true story.
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David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father & first Prime Minister, passed away #OnThisDay 47 years ago (according to the Hebrew calendar).
Ben Gurion's legacy and his profound influence on the young state's history, culture and security live on to this day.
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And now a VERY important question:
@FriendsTV or @SeinfeldTV 🤔?
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Any @MaiselTV fans in the crowd?
This line 👇:
Rose: Honestly Astrid, you don't have to bring us gifts every time you go to Israel.
(Astrid, on behalf of the State of Israel thank you for supporting our economy).
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And this iconic @SeinfeldTV line
Jerry: When someone asks me which way is Israel, I don't fly off the handle!
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Fun fact: @frandrescher won over the hearts of millions of
Israelis when she came to Israel in 1995 and was interviewed on national TV.
We ♥️ you Fran!
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Here's another favorite of ours from "The Nanny":
Fran: When I was 16, I went on a Kibbutz and I had the time of my life.
Maggie: A Kibbutz? Isn't that like one of those hippie communes from the 60s?
Fran: Well, yeah except the only thing we smoked was fish.
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Sundays were made for watching TV 📺 reruns of our favorite sitcoms on the couch.
So we did....and found our favorite #Israel references.
Chandler: What's a Kiryat Moriah?
Ross: The place with the cheap rooms we stayed at in Israel.
#Nostalgia
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Starting off the week with good news from this champion 💪🇮🇱!
Congratulations to our very own #Israeli Judoka Peter Paltchik who took home a gold medal 🥇 at the European Judo Championship Finals!
We couldn't be prouder ♥️
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