It involves the skillful chiseling of olive wood and is most common in the Bethlehem region.

Greek Orthodox monks taught local residents how to carve olive wood.

Those same hands, nut-brown and hard as olive wood, cupped his chin now.

As he went he saw, in a shop window, a beautiful stick of olive wood, with an ebony crook.

They're made from olive wood that's 300 years old.

The road wound from the aerodrome through olive woods, and an occasional village.

"I substitute stones or pieces of olive wood carved by an artist I know," he said.

A patina of use and age will enhance the olive wood handle, carved to resemble bamboo.

Next he placed the knife and the bow of olive wood beside the ship.

The air smelled of burning olive wood from stone ovens in the village houses.