There are fewer than 5,000 Jews left in the Arab world and roughly 950 of them live on the Tunisian island of Djerba. And the community is ...

(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.

Djerba, Tunisia --Cracked tombstones litter the perimeter of the cemetery behind the Great Synagogue that anchors this tiny Tunisian Jewish community, but it was not vandals who broke them.

according to the news site Djerba Salon. “Tunisia would like to follow Morocco’s footsteps and do more to develop its Jewish heritage sites, but right now there are more immediate challenges ...

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Jewish sites in Tunisia have been targeted in the past. A national guardsman killed five people at the more than 2,600-year-old El-Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba after an annual pilgrimage ...

Jewish sites in Tunisia have been targeted in the past. A national guardsman killed five people at the 2,600-year-old El-Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba after an annual pilgrimage in 2023.

Jewish sites in Tunisia have been targeted in the past. A national guardsman killed five people at the 2,600-year-old El-Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba after an annual pilgrimage in 2023.