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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

Tunisian Jewry

A Tunisian Jewish man walks in Hara Kebira, the main Jewish quarter in the resort island of Djerba, during the annual Jewish pilgrimage, on May 24, 2024. (Fethi Belaid / AFP)
May 24, 2024, 7:33 pm
Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage draws low turnout as event scaled back amid security fears
Annual 3-day prayer gathering at Africa’s oldest synagogue on island of Djerba is muted amid soaring tensions due to Gaza war, last year’s deadly terror attack
By AFP and ToI Staff
File - Jewish worshipers attend the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba, on May 8, 2023. (Yassine Mahjoub / AFP)
April 20, 2024, 10:01 am
Hit by terror in 2023, Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage scaled back amid Gaza security fears
Organizers say Lag B’Omer celebration will be moved entirely indoors at Ghriba synagogue, a cornerstone of millennia-old Djerba Jewry
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Fire and destruction at a synagogue in Sfax, Tunisia, after a mob set fire to the building and burned several trees in the courtyard on February 25, 2024. (Screenshots from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
February 28, 2024, 9:56 pm
Mob reported to attack abandoned synagogue in Tunisia’s Sfax
Local reports say rioters set fire to several trees in courtyard, in second attack on a Tunisian synagogue since October 7
By ToI Staff
Gad Partok, 93, a Tunisian-born Holocaust survivor, poses for a portrait in his home in Ashkelon, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
January 27, 2024, 12:26 pm
‘Is it true? Is it so?’: Holocaust survivor says Oct. 7 revived childhood trauma
Tunisia-born Gad Partok says deadly Hamas onslaught and feeling of abandonment by authorities bring back the disturbing memories of the Nazi atrocities during World War II
By AP
A Jewish pilgrim at the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba on May 18, 2022, during the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the synagogue. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)
December 24, 2023, 2:58 pm
Targeted again after Oct. 7, Tunisia’s small Jewish community wonders what future it has
Djerba’s Jews were slowly healing from a deadly terror attack in May, but an attack on a Tunisia synagogue and escalated hostile rhetoric are prompting new thoughts of emigration
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a pre-Passover toast, April 4, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
May 16, 2023, 12:58 pm
Daily Briefing May 16: From foes to bros — Why Netanyahu is no longer mad at Gallant
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses blip in overhaul talks and new PM-Gallant bromance; Diaspora reporter Canaan Lidor talks challenges facing Jews in Portugal, Tunisia
By ToI Staff
Tunisian soldiers secure an area near the Ghriba synagogue following a shootout on the resort island of Djerba on May 10, 2023. (Fethi Belaid/AFP)
May 10, 2023, 5:47 pm
Death toll in Tunisia synagogue attack rises to five
Third guard dies of wounds, after two Jewish worshipers and two other guards are killed by rogue officer who opened fire on Djerba synagogue during annual pilgrimage
By Agencies
Outside view of the Great Synagogue of Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. (AP/Hassene Dridi)
June 24, 2022, 5:17 pm
Attacker stabs two policemen outside Tunisia synagogue
Officers guarding Grand Synagogue of Tunis lightly wounded during assault Thursday night by man previously jailed over terror case, authorities say
By AFP
Mabrouk — whose name is an Arabic-language greeting that is said to congratulate someone on an achievement — looks nothing like the typical couscous eateries that dot Paris. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
May 25, 2022, 10:01 pm
In Paris, two friends draw crowds with their Jewish-Tunisian grandparents’ couscous
Alexandre David and Alexis Memmi serve family recipes without pretense at Mabrouk, a kosher-style eatery in the city center, and their diverse clientele is eating it up
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A Tunisian Jewish pilgrim lights a candle on the first day of the annual pilgrimage to the Ghriba Synagogue, the oldest Jewish monument built in Africa, on April 26, 2021 in the Mediterranean Tunisian resort island of Djerba. (Photo by FATHI NASRI / AFP)
April 27, 2021, 4:09 am
Only a faithful few make it as Djerba pilgrimage resumes after COVID break
‘This year, we pray for the whole world,’ says one participant, as virus restrictions keep away thousands who normally flock to Tunisia’s Ghriba synagogue to mark Lag B’Omer
By AFP
A Jewish Tunisian rests inside the Ghriba synagogue, one the oldest Jewish monuments built in Africa more than 2,500 years ago, on the resort island of Djerba, south of Tunis, Tunisia, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
December 18, 2020, 6:20 pm
Amid pillaging and looting, Tunisia struggles to preserve its Jewish heritage
Tunis seeing increased trafficking of artifacts, also from war-torn neighboring Libya, including rare 500-year-old Torah scrolls; officials call to set up Jewish history museum
By Najeh Mouelhi-Makni and ToI Staff
Women celebrate Rosh Chodesh el Banat in Jerusalem, December 2019. (Aliza Lavie/ via JTA)
December 11, 2020, 1:16 pm
Israelis want to bring back North African Jewry’s feminist Hanukkah tradition
Rosh Chodesh el Benat, or ‘head of the month of daughters,’ falls on the 1st day of the Hebrew month of Tevet and celebrates daughters with lavish parties and gifts
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Israeli singer and songwriter Riff Cohen. (CC-SA-3.0/ Yanai Yechiel)
June 7, 2020, 4:31 am
Locked down? Open up to… eclectic singer-songwriter Riff Cohen
With North African heritage and a Tel Aviv upbringing, this vocalist doesn’t follow the typical female popstar formula. Check out her groovy joie de vivre
By Joy Bernard
A Jewish man rests in La Ghriba, the oldest synagogue in Africa, on the Island of Djerba, southern Tunisia, October 29, 2015.
April 21, 2020, 9:01 pm
Virus nixes annual pilgrimage to Tunisia’s Ghriba synagogue
With places of worship shuttered across the North African country, thousands who normally visit the site for Lag B’Omer will have to wait until ‘the danger of the virus has passed’
By AFP
Tunisian Tourism Minister Rene Trabelsi speaks during an interview with AFP on May 8, 2019 in Tunis. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)
June 26, 2019, 4:31 pm
Tunisia’s Jewish tourism minister condemns Israeli tourists’ praise for IDF
René Trabelsi denies claims of ‘normalization’ with Jewish state after row over video of pilgrims singing ‘God bless all of Israel’s soldiers’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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