Our last episode, “Frankly, My Deer,” was all about a clandestine operation to repatriate the Persian fallow deer during the dwindling days of the Iranian Shah’s regime.
One of the main characters in that story was Major-General Avraham Yoffe, the so-called “Zionist Zorba,” who — back in the ‘60s — while serving as the Head of the IDF’s Northern Command, was also appointed to be the first Director-General of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Early on, he oversaw one of the most effective public service campaigns in the country’s history – namely the prohibition against picking wildflowers.
And that reminded us of one of the very first stories we ever produced here at Israel Story. So here it is… Flower Power.
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Our end song is Waltz Lehaganat HaTzome’ach (“Waltz for the Protection of theFlora”) by Jane Bordeux and Aya Zahavi Feiglin.
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