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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 ...
By 1967, approximately 250,000 Jews had left Morocco, with some seeking refuge in Europe and the United States, while a significant portion chose to immigrate to Israel. All in all, 274,180 individuals are recorded to have emigrated from Morocco to Israel between the establishment of the state in 1948 and 2016. [ 4 ]
At the time, Morocco was home to the largest Jewish community in North Africa. [10] Fears that Moroccan independence, which appeared increasingly likely through the early 1950s, would lead to persecution of the Jewish community led to an initial wave of migrants. From 1948 to 1951, approximately 28,000 Jews emigrated from Morocco to Israel. [11]
Jewish Wedding in Morocco by Eugène Delacroix, Louvre, Paris. The migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel was sponsored, facilitated and administered by Zionist organizations, notably through Cadima (1949–1956) and Operation Yachin (1961–1964). [51]
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.
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 ...
Seleqṣeya (Hebrew: הסלקציה [1]) was the Israeli policy of selective immigration imposed on poor Moroccan Jews adopted in mid 1951. [2] It was applied by Cadima, the Zionist apparatus overseen by agents from Mossad LeAliyah and the Jewish Agency that administered the migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel from 1949 to 1956.
After months of negotiation by Littman, the children left Morocco in five convoys under the guise of a supposed holiday in Switzerland (with Littman accompanying the last convoy), and from Switzerland went to Israel. [1] [2] [3] In all, he assisted in evacuating 530 Jewish children to Israel.