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  2. Migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel - Wikipedia

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    This environment caused less affluent Jews to request to leave Morocco as soon as possible. Following the mass exodus, which did not please the Moroccan government, Zionism was outlawed and defined as a serious crime in 1959, and immigration to Israel was banned, forcing Moroccan Jews to flee the country by sea only, towards Spain or France.

  3. Jewish exodus from the Muslim world - Wikipedia

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    Morocco's increasing identification with the Arab world, and pressure on Jewish educational institutions to Arabize and conform culturally added to the fears of Moroccan Jews. [72] Between 1956 and 1961, emigration to Israel was prohibited by law; [ 68 ] clandestine emigration continued, and a further 18 000 Jews left Morocco.

  4. Moroccan diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The Moroccan diaspora (Arabic: الجالية المغربية), part of the wider Arab diaspora, consists of emigrants from Morocco and their descendants. An estimated five million Moroccans live abroad, [7] with the majority of the diaspora being located in Western Europe, especially France and Spain.

  5. Morocco earthquake – live: Over 2,000 killed as warning ...

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    Maisie Smith reveals she left Morocco two days before earthquake. In pictures: Tourists in queue at Marrakech airport up to leave Morocco. 12:15, Anuj Pant. Tourists in Morocco are leaving the ...

  6. List of sovereign states by net migration rate - Wikipedia

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    An excess of people entering a country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population). An excess of people leaving a country is referred to as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population). The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change.

  7. Moroccan settlers - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1970s, the group began conducting guerrilla warfare in Morocco and Mauritania, but Mauritania soon ceded its claim to the territory, leaving Morocco as the only state belligerent. [3] The war with Morocco caused about half of the Western Sahara's Sahrawi to flee the area, leaving a gap for Moroccan settlers to fill.

  8. Maghrebi Jews - Wikipedia

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    Today, the Jewish population in Morocco is estimated to be just about 2,000. [29] Since the expulsion from Spain after 1492, Moroccan Jews shared many customs of everyday life and a common spoken language ( Berber or Moroccan Arabic ) with their Muslim neighbours, which led to a rich mutual cultural heritage of music, poetry, food and crafts.

  9. Demographics of Morocco - Wikipedia

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    The Trans-Saharan slave trade brought a population of Sub-Saharan Africans to Morocco. After the founding of Israel and start of the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948, many Jews felt compelled to leave Morocco especially after the anti-Jewish riots in Oujda, and many fled to Israel, Europe, and North America, and by 1967 250,000 Jews left Morocco. [1]