166: Frankly, My Deer

Fine caviar, Persian carpets, the malignant presence of a possibly former-Nazi zookeeper, a cameo from a sensuous Mossad agent and cold-blooded murder. This is the improbable, totally true story of a flying Dutchman and some of the last "olim" to leave Iran before the Revolution. 

Our end song is Gan Eden Shel Ha'Adam ("Man's Paradise") by Gilad Segev.

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