Around 200 Jewish pilgrims make trip from abroad to Africa's oldest synagogue, after annual fest that once attracted ...

Videos were published showing groups of Jewish citizens attempting to break into a police station and block roads leading to it on the island in protest against the arrest. A Jewish man from the ...

(JTA) — The day after a gunman killed four people outside an ancient place of Jewish worship on the Tunisian island of Djerba, men gathered in the same synagogue not to mourn, but to celebrate. They ...

The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Monday added Tunisia’s Djerba island to its list of World Heritage Sites. In a statement, The Tunisian Culture Ministry said the resort island was voted to the list ...

Thousands of Jews, including several Israeli citizens, arrived on the Tunisian island of Djerba Friday for an annual pilgrimage to the local synagogue, the oldest in Africa. Throughout the week, ...

This serial property is a testimony to a settlement pattern that developed on the island of Djerba around the 9th century CE amidst the semi-dry and water-scarce environment. Low‑density was its key ...

In one of the last Jewish enclaves in the Arab world, families are leaving as tourism declines and security threats intensify Cracked tombstones litter the cemetery behind Djerba’s Great Synagogue, ...

Cyrine Ben Said, a Tunisian Muslim, carried candles and wrote her hopes for the future on an egg in religious ceremony at a synagogue on the southern island of Djerba. She wanted to share the rituals ...