Acre

Baha’i World Center celebrates the festival of Ayyam-i-Ha

The Ayyam-i-Ha festival is celebrated in the days before the Baha’i Fast and is dedicated to community service, hospitality, and generosity.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Guests enter the Baha’i Shrine and Gardens in Bahji, in the northern Israeli port city of Acre, February 26, 2026
Dairy farmers and their supporters protest against the milk reform led by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at the HaGoma Junction near the city of Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, January 6, 2026.

The education revolution in Acre: Three new schools to open in the upcoming school year

|ByOFER PETERSBURG
A soldier in an ISIS uniform prepares ammunition.

Shin Bet, police arrest ISIS-linked suspects plotting attacks on Israelis

Suspects from Daburiyya and Acre allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and prepared to travel to an enemy state for terrorist instruction.

|ByELI ASHKENAZI
‘ROOTS MUST be one of Israel’s best kosher restaurants.

Roots: A perfect model of coexistence, and one of the best kosher restaurants in Israel - review

'We arrived later than planned and were ravenous. This has nothing to do with the conclusion we reached after our meal that Roots must be one of the best kosher restaurants in Israel.'

|ByGLORIA DEUTSCH

Israel's Int'l Fringe Theater Fest returns for the 43rd year

Israel's premier unconventional theater festival is back next month with a bang in the northern port town of Akko on October 11-14.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
‘AL HAGIVAH’ (On the Hill).

Shin Bet arrest five for 2021 lynching of Jewish man in Acre during riots

The five suspects join two Acre residents who were initially arrested and questioned as early as May 2021, with indictments already filed against them for their involvement in the attack.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A car is set on fire during clashes between Arab and Jews in Acre, northern Israel, May 12, 2021

Israeli days-old baby abandoned in cardboard box, found alive

Police officers found the infant with the umbilical cord still attached to his stomach.

AUGUST 4, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE OLD city of Acre, a week after violent riots threatened to tear the city apart.

Meet the cunning man allegedly behind the murder of Sapir Nahum

Wahl Halayla will be charged on Monday with kidnapping and murdering Sapir Nahum. Here's what the investigation revealed.

JULY 16, 2022ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
24-year-old Sapir Nahum, who went missing on June 2, 2022.

Body found near Bedouin village during search for missing Israeli

The body was discovered during the eleventh day of searches conducted by police in hopes of finding Sapir Nahum, a 24-year-old Acre resident who disappeared without a trace on June 2.

JUNE 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police officers and volunteers search for Sapir Nahum, 24, who disappeared on June 2, 2022.

Large police search underway for 24-year-old missing since Thursday

24-year-old Sapir Nahum, a single mother, disappeared on Thursday after entering her ex-partner's car. He has a criminal record and was recently sued for child support.

JUNE 6, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police officers and volunteers search for Sapir Nahum, 24, who disappeared on June 2, 2022.

Israeli threatens to commit terror attack after being refused entry to hospital

An Israeli woman claimed she was carrying an explosive device and threatened to commit an attack on the Mazor psychiatric hospital near Acre in Israel's north.

MAY 15, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Overview of the psychiatric hospital for mental patients, in Kfar Shaul, Jerusalem

Antisemitism in Acre is reminiscent of darker times - opinion

These disturbing scenes are reminiscent of darker times in Jewish history, when we were powerless at the hands of our non-Jewish neighbors.

MAY 13, 2022ByYAIR KRAUS
A CAR is set on fire in Acre, May 2021. Arab radicals are violent, dangerous and waiting to strike again at the Jews.

Acre Bahai Shrine damaged in fire

Damage was sustained to NIS 250 million construction site dedicated to Abdul Baha.

APRIL 28, 2022ByIAIN CARLOS, GIL ZOHAR
UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Main building at shrine of Abdul Baha, Acre.

Meet World Jewish Travel - A Jewish Tripadvisor

The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 32

APRIL 26, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A picture taken on April 16, 2021, shows a general view of the old city of Acre, also known as Akko, located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel.