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Acre is home to Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, and Baháʼís. [70] In particular, Acre is the holiest city of the Baháʼí Faith and receives many pilgrims of that faith every year. [71] In 1999, there were 22 schools in Acre with an enrollment of 15,000 children. [72]
The museum contains artifacts such as local craftsmanship, [5] clocks, vessels, [6] furniture, works of art and books for children. During Hanukkah, the museum displays a collection of menorahs dating back to the 1930s. [1] In 2015, the museum exhibited 40 Haggadot from the Mordechai collection. [7]
Ptolemais was an ancient port city on the Canaanite coast in the ancient region of Phoenicia, in the location of the present-day city of Acre, Israel. It was also called Ptolemais in Canaan and Ake-Ptolemais (or Akko, Ake, or Akre in Canaanite Language). It was an ancient bishopric that became a double Catholic titular see.
Most of the condemned underground members were executed at the Acre Prison. At that time Acre was an Arab city. Approximately 100 Arabs were executed at the Jerusalem prison during the Mandate. The condemned wore red and were kept in two cells near the gallows room where they awaited execution.
The Old Testament is mostly a Judean creation, although it incorporates many traditions (and, possibly, texts) from the Kingdom of Israel. As such, it describes the history of these two kingdoms, in the Iron Age, from a strictly Judean theological perspective and its historical account is biased, though it becomes relatively reliable from the ...
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JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Israel's government showed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO defence ministers graphic images of dead children and civilians on Thursday ...
After having troubles with the Khwarezmians, Sultan as-Salih began ordering armed expeditions to raid Christian communities and capture men, women and children. Called razzias , or by their original Arabic name ghazw (sing.: ghazwa or ghaza ), the raids extended into Caucasia , the Black Sea , Byzantium, and the coastal areas of Europe.