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.

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

 A soldier in an ISIS uniform prepares ammunition.

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

 ‘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


Roots - Discover your roots in Acre

It’s a partnership between two childhood friends who grew up in Acre and chef Uri Arnold, whose mother is Egyptian. The food is Middle Eastern with a modern twist.

Roots, Acre

Lee Cooper opens branches in Beersheba, Acre

The four new branches were opened with an investment of NIS 2 million.

A display for a Lee Cooper Kids branch.

On this day in history: the Lionheart reached the Holy Land, Siege of Acre

On June 8, 1191, King Richard I of England arrived at the port of Acre in modern-day Israel to take part in the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade.

Richard the Lionheard, England's greatest king?

Grapevine January 14, 2020: A lapse of memory

Acre is a pearl in the Land of Israel, a paradigm for others in that it exemplifies the fact that people of different faiths and cultures can live together in harmony.

YONI PERES (left) and Acre Mayor Shimon Lankri unveil the plaque of a renamed neighborhood named in memory of Israel’s ninth president, Shimon Peres.

Christmas tree torched in village near Acre

A video posted on social media platforms showed an unknown man setting fire to the tree before fleeing the scene.

YULETIDE VIBES: Christmas season at the YMCA attracts crowds from all over the country.

‘By Virtue’ nabs Acre Fringe honors

The play plumbs the mechanisms of incitement/violence in reference to radical theater person Gil Bardugo who fell into a coma because of such activity.

A view of Acre harbor

The Ohr Torah Synagogue: A treasure in Acre

A shining jewel off the beaten path richly rewards adventurous tourists

Ohr Torah Synagogue, Acre

Educating in Acre – on a kibbutz

“I remember what the youth leaders told me on that trip,” Sulema recounted. “‘You must ask yourself: What do you see? What don’t you like? And what are you going to do about it?’”

‘THE KIBBUTZ members have definitely made a positive change in Acre with their idealism and vision.’

An all-around family vacation in the western Galilee

Part 2 – Acre and the surrounding area

THE CITADEL in Acre

Travel - A hacienda in the forest

A family visit to Acre and the Galilee.

THE HACIENDA FOREST View Hotel in the Galilee – gorgeous views and green forests.