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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A never-aired Yom Kippur episode from before the war that asks what does it mean to be sorry?

Our end song is Lu Yehi ("Let It Be") performed by HaGashash HaHiver.

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In the messy tension of war, Pazit had to make a life-or-death decision for someone else.

The end song is "Hymn to the Soul" by LAOR.

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