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  2. 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.

  3. Migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel - Wikipedia

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    After the US provided food support to Morocco in the drought of 1957, [13] Hassan II agreed to accept a $100 per-capita bounty from the American Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which acted as a cover for Israeli emigration agents, [13] for each Jew who emigrated from Morocco—a total of $500,000 for the first 50,000 Moroccan Jews, followed by ...

  4. Jewish exodus from the Muslim world - Wikipedia

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    The first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. In these cases, over 90% of the Jewish population left, despite the necessity of leaving their assets and properties behind. [4] Between 1948 and 1951, 250,000 Jews immigrated to Israel from Arab countries. [5]

  5. 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. [4]

  6. Maghrebi Jews - Wikipedia

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    After Morocco declared independence in 1956, most of the 225,000 Jews in Morocco emigrated to Israel, France and Canada. [18] In Algeria, the National Liberation Front fought and won independence from France in 1961. After Algeria won independence, the Jewish population of 140,000 began a massive and definitive exodus mainly to France due to ...

  7. 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.

  8. Operation Yachin - Wikipedia

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    The Jewish community of Morocco spans nearly 2,000 years. On 14 May 1948 Sultan Muhammad V of Morocco delivered a speech in which he warned his country's Jews not to demonstrate "solidarity with the Zionist aggression," referring to the Declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel and the 1947–1949 Palestine war. [8]

  9. List of active separatist movements in Africa - Wikipedia

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    They are citizens/people of the conflict area and do not come from another country. ... Started in Morocco during the 1920s, [68] [69] and was revitalized in 2013. [70]