It was heavily damaged by rioters during pro-Palestine protests surrounding the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

In March 2011 during the Arab Spring, the synagogue's entry gate, guard house, a Torah scroll were damaged in an arson attack.

[6] During pro-Palestine protests on 17 October 2023 during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, hundreds of rioters set fire to the synagogue building, hammered away the building's walls, and planted Palestinian flags at the site.

The 2023 attack came five months after a mass shooting at the El Ghriba Synagogue, also in Tunisia.

[5] Activist Rafram Chaddad [he] told Al-Monitor that "In every event that Palestinians get killed, the Jews of Tunisia get attacked in turn.