A thorny branch of the Christ's Thorn Jujube tree is seen in the laboratory of Dr. Shabtai Cohen, at the Volcani Agricultural Research Centre in Beit Dagan, Israel, March 8, 2018. Picture taken March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
NEOT KEDUMIM, Israel (Reuters) - As the sun beats down on the barren slopes around Jerusalem, a tree of the kind believed to have provided the crown of thorns in Biblical accounts of Jesus Christ's crucifixion stands unaffected, its fruits ample and foliage green.
While pilgrims prepare to converge on the city at Easter to commemorate the events of Christian tradition, Israeli scientists researching climate change are at work in the surrounding hills studying the Ziziphus Spina-Christi, commonly known as Christ's Thorn Jujube.
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