“You are in India now,” said Nazeer Ansari as he welcomed Navtej Sarna, India’s ambassador to Israel, to the Indian Hospice just inside Herod’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. The Indian flag flutters over the entrance, and as tea is served in the lemon- scented courtyard and Sarna talks with Nazeer’s father and head of the hospice, Shaykh Munir, a “Jerusalem tale” begins.