Two years ago, the threat posed by Iran led to an historic partnership between Israel and three Arab countries, resulting in the Abraham Accords. Although the agreement created new regional opportunities, the Iranian threat has grown.

The Islamic Republic pumps millions into a not-so-secret war against the Jewish state through its proxies Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Officials in Tehran making regular calls to wipe Israel off the map.

This penchant for destruction, however, hasn't always been the case.

"It's hard for Americans in 2022 to imagine what Iran was like when I was born in Tehran myself," said CBN News National Security Contributor Ellie Cohanim. 

More than 40 years ago, Iran and Israel shared a mutually cooperative relationship. The two countries worked together in areas like economic development, agriculture, and health care. Cohanim experienced that partnership first hand.

"My own father had conducted business with an Israeli company where he had brought in Israeli water engineers, who were already, at the time, the most advanced in the world," she said.