Beit Elfarasha
בית אלפראשה
Guest house · No kosher certificate
49 HaBahaim Street, Old City, Acre
A house for Acre home cooking in a restored Ottoman building of the Old City, where local women lead workshops, with two guest suites and a rooftop facing the sea
Beit Elfarasha opened in December 2020 in a renovated Ottoman building of more than 200 years, with remnants from the Crusader period, in an alley in the heart of Old Acre a minute's walk from the ancient sea wall. Cathy Raff, involved in the Old City since 2009, founded it as a place inspired by women and for women, where local women share their native cuisine with visitors from Israel and abroad. The ground floor holds the kitchen where the workshops are held and a living room for cultural events, the first floor two guest suites, and the top floor a rooftop terrace facing the sea. Its workshops run about four hours around dishes such as maqluba, mahashi and sheikh el mahshi, and morning workshops begin, weather permitting, with a walk through the market.
What happens here
- Every Wednesday at 17:00
- Tibetan bowl meditation
Led by Cathy Raff with handmade bowls from Nepal; 100 shekels with coffee or tea and homemade cookies, registration ahead.
Without a room
- By booking
- Acre cooking workshop
About four hours with a local cook, ending with the meal you made, the recipes and a jar of pickles you prepare; from 300 shekels a person for ten or more, or from 3,000 shekels for a smaller group.
As published on beitelfarasha.com, read 2026-10-05.
At a glance
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Wheelchair
- wheelchair entry to the ground-floor lobby and an accessible toilet 90 cm wide; there is no lift, and the suites upstairs are not wheelchair accessible
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Workshops and shows for guests
Rooms
Sky Suite
1 room
A queen-size bed and a sofa that opens into a bed for two (140 by 200 cm)
Sea Suite
1 room
A queen-size bed that can be split into two single beds, and a sofa that can serve as a bed for a child
Both suites are on the first floor, each with a large shower, a TV with YES and Netflix, a small writing table and internet; guests share a Nespresso machine, a hot and cold water bar and a fridge on the floor, and have the rooftop sea-view terrace to themselves.
Read from beitelfarasha.com on 2026-10-05. Prices and free rooms on its booking page
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Beit Elfarasha itself. Its own pictures are on Instagram
Location
49 HaBahaim Street, Old City, Acre
- Train: Acre1.6 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 67 mlines 3
- Parking: Its location page sends drivers to park by the Asadi mini market near the lighthouse, then a short walk down six steps and along the alley.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-05.
Questions
About Beit Elfarasha
- 1.6 km from Acre stationBus stops within 456 m: מגדלור עכו העתיקה/ההגנה, העיר העתיקה.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
InstagramFacebookbeitelfarasha.com
Beit Elfarasha is a guest house at 49 HaBahaim Street, Old City in Acre, in the Northern District. Behind it: founder Cathy Raff.
It has 2 kinds of room.
The nearest railway station is Acre, 1.6 km away. The nearest bus stops are מגדלור עכו העתיקה/ההגנה (67 m), העיר העתיקה (456 m). Its location page sends drivers to park by the Asadi mini market near the lighthouse, then a short walk down six steps and along the alley.
No kosher certificate on its own pages, and it is not on the Acre religious council's list of supervised businesses on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 5 October 2026. The building is in an Old City alley about 150 metres from parking.
The name does not appear in the Companies Registrar, which points to a sole proprietorship or partnership rather than a company.
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- Kosher certificate
- No kosher certificate on its own pages, and it is not on the Acre religious council's list of supervised businesses on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 5 October 2026. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-05
- Accessibility statement
- The building is in an Old City alley about 150 metres from parking. beitelfarasha.com2026-10-05
- Companies Registrar
- Its site names no company, and no company named אלפראשה is in the Companies Registrar on data.gov.il; it may trade as a partnership or a sole trader, which the registrar does not list. data.gov.il2026-10-05
- Municipal business licence
- The Acre municipality publishes a spreadsheet of 362 businesses holding a business licence on its business-licensing pages; the file was last updated in September 2019. Beit Elfarasha, which opened in December 2020, is not on it. akko.muni.il2026-10-05
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | בית אלפראשה / Beit Elfarasha | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 49 HaBahaim Street, Old City | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 32.92197, 35.067356 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 04-625-5551 | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| Website | beitelfarasha.com | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from beitelfarasha.com | beitelfarasha.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Rooms | 2 kinds of room | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Tibetan bowl meditation | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| Visits without a room | Acre cooking workshop | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | wheelchair entry to the ground-floor lobby and an accessible toilet 90 cm wide; there is no lift, and the suites upstairs are not wheelchair accessible | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | Its location page sends drivers to park by the Asadi mini market near the lighthouse, then a short walk down six steps and along the alley. | beitelfarasha.com | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Acre 1.6 km; מגדלור עכו העתיקה/ההגנה 67 m; העיר העתיקה 456 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its site names no company, and no company named אלפראשה is in the Companies Registrar on data.gov.il; it may trade as a partnership or a sole trader, which the registrar does not list. | data.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | The Acre municipality publishes a spreadsheet of 362 businesses holding a business licence on its business-licensing pages; the file was last updated in September 2019. Beit Elfarasha, which opened in December 2020, is not on it. | akko.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from beitelfarasha.com | beitelfarasha.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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