Sisters of Nazareth convent, Shefa-Amr

The Sisters of Nazareth convent (Arabic: دير راهبات الناصره - شفاعمرو) is a monastery located in the city of Shefa-ʻAmr, Israel.

In the year 1857, after the citizens of Shefa-ʻAmr saw how much the Sisters of Nazareth convent in Nazareth had helped the people of that city, they contacted the convent's Sister Hilo with an offer to contribute a piece of land in the center of Shefa-ʻAmr containing the ruins of a 4th-century church for a new convent to be built.

In 1860 a new school was built in the convent's area; it expanded over the years, and nowadays teaches 1,000 of the city's children.

Some of the people of Shefa-ʻAmr asked for the infirmary to remain open; the head sister did not have the power to do so, and instead asked the sisters to evacuate the convent to let another monastery occupy it and run the infirmary.

When the camels arrived the men of the city asked them why they had come, and ordered them to go back, then told the sisters "We don't want an infirmary, we don't want another convent we just want the Sisters of Nazareth to stay", so they stayed there for the next 8 days making sure no one left.