Cathy Raff greets visitors at her workshop center, Beit Elfarasha, in the Old City of Acre (Akko), Israel, with hometown pride. It doesn't matter that Raff grew up in Georgia, in the south of the ...

Participants compete during a dragon boat race in Akko, Israel, on Sept. 8, 2023. A dragon boat race was held in northern Israel on Friday, with hundreds of paddlers from 17 teams nationwide competing ...

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 ...

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 ...

For 4 weeks this summer, Megan Ashbrook, Sarah Kammer, Caroline Sausser, and Rachel Strohl got to experience first-hand what it is like to be an archaeologist. Miami sent the 3 undergraduate ...

As an academic, I spend my summers conducting research and relaxing from the hectic academic year that just passed. This year, the need for relief was particularly acute after nearly eight months of a ...

Hezbollah on Thursday morning fired a barrage of missiles towards the northern Israeli city of Akko (Acre) and its environs. The barrage is Hezbollah's first since just after 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday ...

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 ...

Alexei Poupov, 51, was killed Saturday when a shrapnel fragment struck his upper torso while he was driving his car near Akko (Acre), following a heavy rocket barrage fired from Lebanon at Tzfat, the ...

An Arab Israeli man was sentenced to 17 years behind bars on Monday for his role in the mob assault of a Jewish resident of Acre during the May 2021 riots that left the victim, Mor Ganashvili, with ...