Ain Karin (Ein Karem), Israel - general view - Ottomon postcard c.1905-10

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• Picture / Image:  Ain Karin [or Ein Karem] - general view [now Israel, then part of the Ottomon Empire]
• Publisher: Andre Terzis & Fils, Beyrouth and Jerusalem - headed 'Turquie'
• Postally used: no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Ein Karem (Hebrew: עֵין כֶּרֶם‎, lit. "Spring of the Vineyard", and Hebrew: עין כרם‎ - ʿEin Kerem, or in Arabic ʿAyn Kārim;[9] also Ain Karem, Ein Kerem) is an ancient village southwest of historical Jerusalem, and now a neighborhood of the modern city, within Jerusalem District, Israel. It is the site of the Hadassah Medical Center. It was a Palestinian village in Mandatory Palestine's Jerusalem Subdistrict, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War on July 16, 1948.[10][11]

Christian tradition holds that Saint John the Baptist was born in Ein Karem, following the biblical verse in Luke saying John's family lived in: "town in the hill country of Judea". Probably, because of its location between Bethlehem and old Jerusalem, this location was a very comfortable one for a pilgrimage, and this led to the establishment of many churches and monasteries in the area. In 2010 the neighborhood had a population of 2,000.[12] It attracts three million visitors a year, one-third of them pilgrims from around the world.[12]