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Between 1948 and 1951, approximately 28,000 Jews made Aliyah to Israel through Cadima, a Zionist apparatus operated by Jewish Agency and Mossad Le'Aliyah envoys sent from Israel. [ 2 ] With the return of Mohammed V and the subsequent declaration of Morocco's independence in 1956, Jewish residents were granted Moroccan citizenship .
Moroccan Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Moroccan Jewish communities who now reside within the state of Israel.The 2019 Israeli census counts 472,800 Jews born in Morocco or with a Moroccan-born father, [3] although according to the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry, nearly one million Israeli Jews are Moroccan or of Moroccan descent, making them the ...
Etching of Jewish home in Mogador, Darondeau (1807–1841). Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community with possible origins dating back to before 70 CE. Concrete evidence of Jewish presence in Morocco becomes apparent in late antiquity, with Hebrew epitaphs and menorah-decorated lamps discovered in the Roman city of Volubilis, and the remains of a synagogue dating to the third century CE.
Morocco upgraded ties with Israel in 2020, encouraged by then U.S. President Donald Trump, who recognised Rabat's rule over Western Sahara, where the Algeria-backed Polisario Front demands an ...
Morocco and Israel agreed to normalize relations yesterday in a deal overseen by the U.S. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan have all established diplomatic relations with Israel since ...
Members of the Arab-Jewish Partnership Guard in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa are stopped by police as they put up anti-war posters in Jaffa, Israel. (Maya Levin for NBC News) Mirroring the demographics of Tel ...
King of Morocco Mohammed VI. Like late Hassan II, his son King Mohammed VI of Morocco, whose reign began in 1999, maintained unofficial relations with Israel.Mohammed VI's advisor, André Azoulay, is an instrumental Jewish Moroccan who facilitated the growth of Morocco in both economic and political terms.
The vast majority of Morocco's 265,000 Jews emigrated to Israel after 1948, with significant emigration to Europe (mainly France) and North America as well. Although about 3,000 Jews remain in Morocco today, [ 8 ] most of them speak French rather than Judeo-Moroccan, [ 9 ] and their Arabic is more akin to Moroccan Arabic than to Judeo-Arabic.