India, June 21 -- While writing the Abracadabra titled "Pondering over wars and warmongers of the world!" on June 19, 2025, I remembered my trip to Israel 28 years ago.

In 1997, I went on a Christian Holy pilgrimage to Israel with my Hindu friend late R. Gururaja, a retired Commissioner of Provident Fund (PF), Karnataka, along with a group of Christian pilgrims. It was a two-week pilgrimage. There was peace in the region but infrequent terrorist attacks were taking place. None in the group was deterred by the terror threat.

Our stay and tours were comfortable, about which I had written in detail in this column on return. However, there was one incident of great concern to our tour-operator and all of us when we found my friend R. Gurura...