One of history’s great ironies is that while Tehran spends billions of dollars trying to erase the Jewish state, Israel is safer thanks, in part, to Jews who fled Iran only a few decades ago.

The descendants of Iranian Jews, whose familial roots stretch back through centuries in Isfahan, Shiraz and Tehran, bring their knowledge of the regime to their work in Israel’s military, security and strategic industries. They are not “colonizers” but exiles returned who have returned to their indigenous homeland, bringing with them memory, expertise and a fierce determination to ensure their survival in the land where Jewish history began.

Take Maj. Arye Sharuz Shalicar , an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson of Persian-Jewish origin, fluent in Farsi, who tells Israel’s story directly to Iranian

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