In 2010, she planted the seed, nicknamed “Sheba,” inside a greenhouse in the Center for Sustainable Agriculture in Israel and it grew into a tree in ... there no balm in Gilead?

For good reason, McMinnville residents love their street trees. Then there are tree streets. Where Quirk comes in is the ...

The usual sullen calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan.

Study lead author Sarah Sallon surmised that the tree might be the source of what ancient texts call "Judean balsam" or "balm of Gilead." The only way to find out was to observe the plant itself.

Appropriately, the name comes from the Balm of Gilead produced from trees on the hills northeast of Galilee in Biblical times, and was said to have had healing and purifying qualities. The small ...