A highlight of the Knesset tour for the JNF-KKL leadership came when Speaker of the Knesset Reuven Rivlin stopped by to welcome the group. Against the backdrop of Chagall's tapestry triptych, M.K. Rivlin gestured to the line of cypresses growing in Bethlehem visible from a Knesset window to illustrate to the 200 Jewish National Fund – Keren Kayemet delegates how close the Palestinians are to the heart of the Jewish homeland. He described a divided Jerusalem as a potential "Belfast sitting at the edge of a volcano."