The hippos? That’s right, the hippopotami, to be more scientifically precise about it. For you see, Escobar was so rich back in the '80s that he set up a private zoo on his estate, Hacienda Napoles.

Almost all the animals at the Midbarium are desert species, though many are not native to Israel. Some non-desert animals are holdovers from the old Beersheba Zoo, and some, like the hippos ...