Thirteen-year-old Yair Whiteson was recently hiking Israel's Mount Carmel with his father when he made an astonishing ...

The name itself, Italia Valeriana, suggests that it does not grow only in Israel but also in Eastern Mediterranean countries such as Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier.