Journey Rome-Tel Aviv

The Gang of Six left Rome (less one of our bags which had gotten lost somewhere between Caracas, Venezuela and Mila, Italy) the day before our pilgrimage was to start. We always sat together on the flights, but this trip I was seated next to an Israeli gentleman who saw the Baha'i book (Door or Hope) I was reading and asked if I was a Baha'i. When I said we were a group of Baha'is going to Haifa for pilgrimage he told me that he had met our "president". I was intriqued! Turns out he was an environmentalist and had attended a large conference in London with Prince Phillip and had been seated next to Amat'l-Baha Ruhiyyih Khanum (what you could call the Baha'i First Lady)! We had a cordial conversation.
The photo above is of our mischievous Marco opposite an artful bronze near the Tel Aviv airport.