Skirting the Mediterranean coast just over an hour northwest of Tel Aviv, this ancient Israeli port city goes by many names — Akko (Hebrew), Acre (English), or Akka (Arabic). Winding streets of ...

Akko’s Old City, many people told me, is one of the most beautiful places on the planet, but I never found the time to go there. At least not until today, when I decided that it’s time I finally heed ...

Jewish residents of the city of Akko in northern Israel are upset by the scheduled opening later this month of a mosque in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood in the mixed Jewish-Arab city. Public ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Cathy Raff greets visitors at her workshop center, Beit Elfarasha, in ...

Denial takes place in stages. It won’t happen to me; it can’t happen in today’s world; it will never happen; and it didn’t happen. Reality is different. Today it did happen. There were Swastika’s ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) – The rioting in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Akko, which erupted after an Arab man drove through a Jewish neighborhood on Yom Kippur, shows just how combustible Arab-Jewish relations ...

How can one man, the thrice-elected mayor of one of the oldest cities in the world—who is so smart, pragmatic, charismatic and effective—be unknown outside the tiny world of Israeli politics? Before ...

The development of the ancient city of Akko, roughly 6000 years ago, led to the collapse of the local ecosystem. Photo: mitch59 It's easy to believe that humankind's earliest cities existed ...

An ancient city with spires and citadels and thick sandstone fortress walls juts out into the Mediterranean, looking more like a mirage than a city in 2012. This was a thriving city, and a center of ...

An Arab driver nearly ran down a group of Jews in the street, the latter - fearing a terror attack - stoned him, and Arabs rioted and vandalized Jewish property in ...