It is mentioned in Genesis 37:25: “As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh ...

They grew it in an Israeli greenhouse, and it is now a 10-foot tree that produces a clear resin researchers say could be the biblical “balm of Gilead.” The famous balm, or tsori in Hebrew ...

Based on historical research, Sallon had a hunch that the tree might be the source of what ancient texts from the region, including the Bible, describe as “Judean Balsam” or “Balm of Gilead ...

“Is there no balm in Gilead?” the prophet Jeremiah famously asks. I don’t know about that, but I know there may be some healing political balm in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal ...