JERUSALEM — During October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being taken ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being ...

On the winding slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, amid the ancient tombstones of the world’s oldest Jewish cemetery, construction is underway on a new 1,500-square-meter visitor education center.

JERUSALEM (AP) — This year’s harvest happened as a ceasefire agreement was reached, spreading a tenuous hope for peace — peace that olive branches have symbolized since the biblical story of the dove ...