Operation Bambi: How Iran helped Israel in its Green Revolution

Photo: Israel Nature and Parks Authority

History is full of hidden little gems. One of them is the story of the Persian Fallow Deer, a species once-extinct  in Israel that in recent years has been reintroduced into nature with help of… Iran.

In 1978, moments before the Islamic revolution, a team of  rangers from Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority left for Tehran on a secret mission to bring back a group of four Fallow Deer that would serve as a breeding group of the locally extinct animal.

Now 30 years later, more than 500 offspring from those original four Iranian deers have been released back into the hills surrounding Jerusalem and vast areas of the Galilee, most of them unaware of the diplomatic efforts that preceded their existence.

The Wall Street Journal has the full story.

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