While visiting the historic Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem during a school field trip in December, 10-year-old Nehorai Nir spotted something colorful shining in the dirt as he climbed a hill. He ...

While on a class trip to the historic Ein Karem village in Jerusalem, Israel, a 10-year-old discovered an unexpected surprise. Nehorai Nir was picking edible plants with his class and believed he ...

A reminder of the devotion of Christian pilgrims coming to the Holy Land in the footsteps of their tradition was recently ...

Nehorai Nir made the find during a class trip earlier this month to Ein Karem, a historic hillside village that is west of Jerusalem and renowned for its centuries-old holy sites. The village ...

Ein Karem, a mountain village southwest of Jerusalem, has been venerated for centuries by Christians as the “town in Judah” where both John the Baptist is believed to have been born ...

Church of the Visitation in Ein Karem, a center of Christian pilgrimage. (credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority) Aside from the object’s beauty, Re’em added that the significance ...

When 10-year-old Nehorai Nir recently went on a class trip to the picturesque Ein Karem neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, he was picking edible plants on a hill and suddenly saw a colorful object ...