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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 ...
A small community of around 2,000–2,500 Jews live in Morocco today. However, in a rapidly increasing trend, young men from the community are emigrating to Israel and France. [33] As of 2017, according to The Economist, "No Arab country has gone to the lengths of Morocco to revive its Jewish heritage."
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 ...
Shay Hazkani writes that about 20,000 Moroccan Jews migrated to Israel in 1948–49, and there was a manifested desire to leave Israel and return to Morocco due to Ashkenazi racism, and that this urge was most apparent among the 645–1600 North Africans (most of whom were Moroccan) who fought in the Israeli military in the 1948 Palestine War. [18]
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 ...
What was once a thriving community of over 350,000 Jews now consists of just 2,000 today, with most Moroccan Jews emigrating to Israel, Canada, France and the United States.
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.