Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Old City of Acre' has mentioned 'Jewish' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The city appears in the Babylonian Talmud with the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic name xd7xaaxd7x9cxd7x91xd7x95xd7xa9xe2x80x8e Talbush of uncertain etymology. | WIKI |
| Demetrius offered many bribes to the Maccabees to obtain Jewish support against his rival, including the revenues of Ptolemais for the benefit of the Temple in Jerusalem, but in vain. | WIKI |
| At the beginning of the Mandate period, in the 1922 census of Palestine, Acre had 6,420 residents: 4,883 of whom were Muslim; 1,344 Christian; 102 Bahxc3xa1xcaxbcxc3xad; 78 Jewish and 13 Druze. | WIKI |
| Acre's fort was converted into a jail, where members of the Jewish underground were held during their struggle against the Mandate authorities, among them Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Shlomo Ben-Yosef, and Dov Gruner. | WIKI |
| Other Jewish inmates were freed by members of the Irgun, who broke into the jail on 4 May 1947 and succeeded in releasing Jewish underground movement activists. | WIKI |
| Before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War broke out, Acre's Arabs attacked neighbouring Jewish settlements and Jewish transportation; in March 1948 42 Jews were killed on an attack on a convoy north of the city,[44] whilst on 18 March four Jewish employees of the electricity company and five British soldiers protecting them were killed whilst travelling to repair damaged lines near the city. | WIKI |
| [47] Throughout the 1950s, many Jewish neighbourhoods were established at the northern and eastern parts of the city, as it became a development town, designated to absorb numerous Jewish immigrants, largely Jews from Morocco. | WIKI |
| Within several years, however, the population balance between Jews and Arabs shifted backwards, as northern neighbourhoods were abandoned by many of its Jewish residents in favour of new housing projects in nearby Nahariya, while many Muslim Arabs moved in (largely coming from nearby Arab villages). | WIKI |
| Nevertheless, the city still has a clear Jewish majority; in 2011, the population of 46,000 included 30,000 Jews and 14,000 Arabs. | WIKI |
| Ethnic tensions erupted in the city on 8 October 2008 after an Arab citizen drove through a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood during Yom Kippur, leading to five days of violence between Arabs and Jews. | WIKI |
| The Sir Charles Clore Jewish-Arab Community Centre in the Kiryat Wolfson neighbourhood runs youth clubs and programs for Jewish and Arab children. | WIKI |
| [62] Theatre performances by Jewish and Arab producers are staged at indoor and outdoor venues around the city. | WIKI |
| A heavy land defensive wall was built north and east to the city in 1800xe2x80x931814 by Jazzar Pasha and his Jewish advisor, Haim Farhi. | WIKI |
| During the Palestinian mandate period, activists of Arab nationalist and the Jewish Zionist movements were held prisoner there; some were executed there. | WIKI |
| Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 xe2x80x93 October 3, 1226) came on pilgrimage to the Holy Land passing through Acre Nahmanides (1194xe2x80x931270), Jewish scholar and Talmud expert Heinrich Walpot (died before 1208), first Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Otto von Kerpen (died 1209), second Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Marco Polo (1254xe2x80x931324) sailed from Venice to Acre in 1271 Joan of Acre (1272xe2x80x931307), English princess born in Acre General Caffarelli (1759xe2x80x931799), French general and scholar; died and buried in Acre Ghassan Kanafani (born 1936, died 1972), Palestinian writer. | WIKI |