Topic: Acre

Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto

1707, Padua, Venetian republic [Italy]-d. After being expelled by the Italian rabbis, he moved to Amsterdam (1736), where he wrote his morality play La-yesharim tehilah (Praise for Uprightness) and an ethical work, Mesilat yesharim (1740; The Path of the Upright), which still ...

Baha Ullah

Mirza ?oseyn was a member of the Shi?ite branch of Islam. He subsequently allied himself with Mirza ?Ali Mo?ammad of Shiraz, who was known as the Bab (Arabic: After the Bab's execution by the Iranian government for treason (1850), Mirza ?oseyn joined ...

Church's light relief to save the world

The Church of England has gently modified God's first injunction in a new green guide for members, which suggests: Vicars and churchwardens are asked to draw up modern versions of the medieval use of churchyards to grow yew - essential for longbows ...
Riots in ethnically mixed northern city highlight tensions among Israel's Arabs and JewsFor three decades, Azia Abu Ali, an Israeli Arab, would chat with her Jewish neighbors and sometimes visit their homes.The civility was wiped out by four days of rioting earlier ...
Israeli police arrested an Arab Israeli man who drove his car during the Yom Kippur holiday in an incident which sparked four nights of rioting in the northern town of Acre, police said on Tuesday. "Tawfik Jamal was remanded in custody for ...

Israel president appeals for tolerance after riots

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday travelled to the northern port city of Acre where he appealed for tolerance after four days of clashes between Arab and Jewish residents. "I was surprised by the extent of appeals for peaceful coexistence issued by ...
Calm returned to the northern Israeli city of Acre on Saturday after two houses belonging to Arab families had been torched overnight during three days of violent clashes, police said.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, however, that the more than 700 police that ...

Arab houses torched in north Israel town: radio

Jewish protesters torched two houses belonging to Arab families in the northern Israeli town of Acre overnight after three days of violent clashes, Israeli public radio reported on Saturday.Over 700 police, meanwhile, patrolled the coastal town of 50,000 people, a police commander ...