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Taylor considered simply including the six with dozens of other Canadians leaving the country — he was in the process of shutting down the embassy — but the Central Intelligence Agency preferred to concoct a story about a Hollywood film production, with a "Canadian" crew, scouting possible locations in Tehran. Two days later, on Jan. A commercial Swissair flight carried them to safety. Once they were gone, Mr. Taylor swiftly shuttered the embassy, and he and his staff fled the country. Radio stations played O Canada in tribute. Taylor was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by U.

Taylor was named a member of the Order of Canada. In late , Mr. Taylor became Consul-General in New York, where he was welcomed as a hero. Four years later, he left public service to become an executive with RJR Nabisco, where he worked on expanding the company's international business. Taylor's business interests and natural joie de vivre brought him many friends in high places.

In the s and '90s, he was a regular participant on fishing trips to the Arctic organized by the Alberta industrialist Peter Pocklington, alongside other well-known Canadians. Taylor recalled, "but he was not much of a fisherman. I kept asking about the fish, for him to bring one back. And so, one year, he said, 'You know, I'm going to bring back an Arctic char for you, cut it up, and freeze it. I asked him, 'What happened to it? He said it so seriously, I suppose at the time I half-believed him.

One of the friends he made on those trips was Glen Sather, who was working then for Mr. Taylor was a regular guest at the games, cheering on the team. Still, when either the Calgary Flames or the Toronto Maple Leafs came to town, he was a textbook diplomat. The caper, meanwhile, proved irresistible to filmmakers, who produced numerous versions of the story, including a TV movie-of-the-week Escape From Iran: The tale mostly faded from view until Ben Affleck's thriller, Argo , brought it back for a new generation.

Canadians, though, took umbrage at the manifold fictions of the film, which presented the caper as a CIA-directed-and-executed mission and falsely suggested Ken Taylor threatened to kick out the house guests because the Canadian government was shuttering the embassy. Still, the controversy brought Mr. Taylor back for one last turn in the spotlight.

Taylor for his work. At the time, William Daugherty, a former CIA agent taken hostage in Iran who was beaten during his days in captivity before being released along with the other U.

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Taylor was often called upon to offer his perspective on Canada's role abroad. Taylor diplomatically decried the move. Taylor leaves his wife, Pat, their son, Douglas, and two grandchildren, Tristan and Kassia. The funeral details are not yet finalized. Send us a memory of someone we have recently profiled on the Obituaries page.

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During my military service, Nogah Hareuveni told us that the flower buds are edible, and that pickled capers are rather expensive. In one of my first attempts to cook with them, I cooked the buds in water, replaced the water to reduce the bitterness, and mixed them with canned meat.

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The bitter taste of the whole dish dampened my further desire to cook capers, for some time. This bitter taste reminded me of the little "trick" Yoav Orni played on us — a group of youngsters interested in nature, during a walk in the southern Negev. He told us the leaves of Capparis cartilaginea were very sweet and seduced us into eating them, while displaying the face of a person very happy with the sweet taste.

They were very bitter!! Hareuveni's instructions for pickling caper buds seemed to me too involved for the free time I had during military service. But I liked the "tales of the caper" in the Mishnah. Raban Gamliel stated that "There will be trees that will provide fruits daily. When telling this story I have often felt a pleasant shiver of excitement, thinking of the old days when every one in this land knew what Capparis was, and why it was the symbol for a tree that provides fruits daily.

There is a gradual change in the size of the bud, seen in Fig. To obtain the maximum yield from this shrub, the largest bud should be collected from each branch. A similar situation is seen in C. In the distant past, the word "Trees" in Hebrew, referred to lignified plants. King Solomon talked of "The trees," from the cedar Erez — the most pompous tree of Lebanon to the hyssop Ezov — the most modest. These and many other stories rooted in the past, come to mind and are told when I find sufficient time to talk about the magnificent caper.

My friend, teacher, and commanding officer Nogah Hareuveni chose the caper flower Fig. In addition to its beauty it symbolizes "things that already exist in our world". Capparis aegyptia in the morning. It is also "a tree that gives fruit every day. Capparis sicula in the morning. It is also "a tree that gives fruit every day".

Left of the flower are two young fruits that are also edible, giving strength to the expression "gives fruit daily". I started collecting flowering buds of capers, "Kaprisin" in the Mishnah, when I was a student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. One day I was walking in the area of David Yellin street and the Edison Cinema, and picked some capers.

Orthodox Jews came out of their Yeshiva, and looked at this strange person walking in their neighborhood. Their Rabbi said in Yiddish "Is that a caper? He then said, "If you are speaking of religious things, why don't you cover your head with a hat or kippa? And if you pick this fruit, do you also give the necessary tithe to the Levites in the Temple? After speaking to me, the rabbi and his pupils then walked away to have their lunch, past the synagogue named after Avinoam Yellin I am also named after him — he was a cousin of my father's. Over the years, whenever I picked capers and ate what I had pickled, I took pleasure in seeing their high price per kilogram in the shops, while I was eating them at no cost.

This is also based on a story in the Mishnah, in the Sabbath tractate, of a Hasid who refrained from repairing his fence during the Sabbath. God rewarded him by giving him one caper that provided him with financial support for many years. To people I appreciate, I give pickled capers Fig. Pickled capers at my home. Left — flowering buds "caprisin" in the Mishnah , above: The observations I made when collecting capers at the twilight hour always gave me the deep pleasure of enjoying nature's natural regulator or timer, as displayed by the caper and its visitors — a timer well trained over a long time during the evolution of the plant and its pollinators.

From lunch-time onward, the caper buds start indicating that something is going on. The white petals start to expand and show their color among the green sepals. Half an hour before sunset in Jerusalem, Galilee, and the Golan, when the sun's rays no longer fall on the shrubs, the petals stretch and their creases begin to straighten. Near Ashdod the caper refused to open according to the right "mountains timetable. On rare occasions, I was lucky enough to approach such shrubs at this enchanted hour without the noise of cars.

I felt that this buzz was part of the 'Sound of life' an expression from the book 'Zen Shen' by Michael Prishvin, translated into Hebrew by Shlonsky. Not many people are privileged to hear this sound, although this concert may be heard at twilight in the summer near every flowering caper plant.

The bees collect only gray-purple pollen grains from the anthers and do not search for nectar see the left legs of the two bees in Fig.

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At this hour, the flowers' scent is strong and distinctive. After sunset a fairy arrives at each shrub and sends the bees away, into a long sleep, opening up the area to others. The "pollen pockets" on the left legs of the two bees are full. The prominent long green nectar gland of the Capparis sicula flower is seen above the flower center. The nectar gland is hidden among the upper pair of petals Fig. Observations made by a high school student working with my colleagues from the botanical department, revealed that hawk-moths arrive during the night hours.

The white color of the petals leads them to the flowers and while searching for the nectar with their long tongues, they become contaminated with the pollen and transfer it to the next flowers they visit. I have not seen these visits, although I have wanted to see them for many years. I contributed my part by displaying the capers in bloom. I pointed out a shrub growing not far from the house of David Yellin, whose son Yehoshua Yellin was my father's grandfather.

Yisachar illuminated the shrubs with a strong light, but even then the hawk-moths refused to cooperate. That night a large shrub bloomed on the Western Wall, on the right of the flag in Fig. At sunrise the bees arrived again. From time to time a large bumble-bee arrived without a scrap of respect for the flower. These bees move the filaments and send their long tongues into the nectar gland and use the nectar. Right of the national flag is a prominent big shrub. When picking capers one has to tap the stems gently to free them of the small ants that come for the extra-floral nectar.

This is a barely studied phenomenon. For many years I have seen the nectar as minute clear, sticky droplets, and did not know if the ants came to collect what the plant produced for them. The alternative was that the ants caused the plants to secret nectar Figs.

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This year, during mid-June, when I decided to photograph nectar droplets, I went to the caper in my garden at 8 a.

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