Nein

Nein ניין‎ نين
View of Nein from entrance to the village
Nein
Coordinates: 32°38′N 35°21′E / 32.633°N 35.350°E / 32.633; 35.350Coordinates: 32°38′N 35°21′E / 32.633°N 35.350°E / 32.633; 35.350
Grid position	183/226 PAL
District	Northern
Council	Bustan al-Marj
Population (2015)	1,766

Nein (Arabic: نين‎‎, Na'in, lit. Charming, Hebrew: ניין‎‎) — also Nain or Naim in English — is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee, 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) south of Nazareth, Nein covers a land area of approximately 1,000 dunums and falls under the jurisdiction of Bustan al-Marj Regional Council, whose headquarters it hosts. Its total land area consisted of 3,737 dunums prior to 1962. According to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2015 it had a population of 1,766.

Nein lies a short distance from Mount Tabor. A hill known in Arabic as Tell el-Ajul lay on the path that ran between Nein and nearby Indur, an Arab village destroyed in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. While Edward Robinson describes Nein as lying on the northern slope of a hill called, "the little Hermon," and it is described in biblical guidebooks as lying at the foot of the Hill of Moreh.

Edward Robinson and Eli Smith, who visited Palestine in the mid-19th century, identified Nein as, "the Nain of the New Testament," where, according to the Bible (Gospel of Luke 7:11-17), Jesus raised a young man from death and reunited him with his mother.