The number of Christians in the Holy Land has declined dramatically due ... “The Bible mentions the olive tree many times, and Jesus prayed among olive trees on the Mount of Olives,” he ...

It has stood in this spot near Bethlehem longer than Christianity and Islam, since before the time of the prophets of the Holy Land. Circling slowly round this ancient olive tree, Salah Abu Ali ...

60-year-old Palestinian Mahfoza Oud cries and hugs her olive tree in the West Bank village ... political because of where it grows on occupied land, with Palestinians stating that Israeli ...

the moment they regained Jewish control over Jerusalem and the Holy Temple. The olive oil, which plays an important role in the Hanukkah story, was a key part of life in the land of Israel ...

"No one says to the olive tree: How beautiful you are ... A source of income, they represent their resistance and their roots in this land occupied by Israel since 1967.

While olive trees are indigenous to the land, take decades to mature ... JNF had planted a tree in my name in Jerusalem’s Peace Forest …The front of my certificate shows a lonely, fragile ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --At the risk of sounding sacrilegious: taking a pilgrimage to Holy Land in Northeast Minneapolis ... they import olive oil under their own brand name from Lebanon, the cheese ...

The olive trees of Oliete, a village in Teruel, Spain, were disappearing for this very reason. Oliete’s 300 residents live surrounded by the trees, and most families own land with at least a few.

In fact, the vine and the olive tree are symbols not just of Israel ... The variety he used was Nabali, one that is indigenous to the Holy Land. Its name suggests that it may hail from Nablus.