Pilgrims flock to Africa's oldest synagogue for annual festival Worshippers pray, light candles and write wishes on eggs as an annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa's oldest synagogue got under way in Tunisia. Hundreds of pilgrims converged on the Ghriba synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba, where one of the last Jewish communities in the Arab world lives, to celebrate the two-day Lag BaOmer festival. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES