Just outside of Acre’s old walled city, lies the Or Torah Synagogue, also known as the Tunisian Synagogue in Acre.
The synagogue was first constructed in 1955 in line with a wave of Tunisian immigrants arriving in Israel during the 1950s and 1960s. The synagogue is widely credited with seeking to re-establish the Jewish pride seen in mosaics of ruined ancient synagogues found throughout Israel.
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Sites
| Name | Since | Distance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nisco Museum | 2020 | 26.3km | site_ao | ||
| Monfort Fortress | 2020 | 19.3km | site_ao | ||
| Mount Tabor | 2019 | 39.6km | site_ao | ||
| El-Jazzar Mosque | 2019 | 0.6km | site_ao | ||
| Mount Arbel | 2018 | 40.2km | site_ao | ||
| Beit She’arim Necropolis | 2018 | 25km | site_ao | ||
| Soldier’s House (Beit Hachyal) | 1963 | 13.9km | site_brutalism | ||
| Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (today Danciger Laboratories), Technion | 17.3km | site_brutalism | |||
| Leo Baeck School | 15.1km | site_brutalism | |||
| Immigrants Hostel (today The Alfred & Irma Morgenthau Absorption Center) | 33.1km | site_brutalism | |||
| Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal | 2015 | 25.1km | site_whs | ||
| Tyre | 1984 | 40.2km | site_whs | ||
| Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee | 2008 | 14.4km | site_whs | ||
| Biblical Tels – Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba | 2005 | 37.7km | site_whs | ||
| Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves | 2012 | 30.1km | site_whs | ||
| Old City of Acre | 2001 | 0.8km | site_whs |
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