Moroccan Jewish immigrant to Jerusalem on 1949

my parents are Moroccan Jewish that immigrant to Jerusalem on 1949

When the Jews began to disperse throughout the Roman empire after the dissolution of the Jewish state in 70, many settled in Mauretania including part of modern-day Morocco. These settlers engaged in agriculture, cattle-raising, and trades. They were divided into bodies akin to tribes, governed by their respective heads, and had to pay the Romans a capitation-tax of 2 shekels.

Under the dominion of the Romans and after 429 of the Vandals the Mauretanian Jews increased and prospered to such a degree that Church councils of Africa found it necessary to take a stand against them. The Justinian edict of persecution for North Africa, issued after the Vandal rule had been overthrown and Mauretania had come under the dominion of the Byzantines (534), was directed against the Jews as well as the Arians, the Donatists, and other dissenters [3].

In the 7th century the Jewish population of Mauretania received as a further accession from Iberian peninsula those who wished to escape west-Gothic legislation. At the end of the same century, at the time of the great Arab conquests in northwestern Africa, there were in Mauretania, according to the Arab historians, many powerful Berber tribes which professed Karaite Judaism. It would be very difficult to decide whether these Berber Jewish tribes were originally of Israelite descent and had become assimilated with the Berbers in language, habits, mode of life—in short, in everything except religion - or whether they were indigenous Berbers who in the course of centuries had become Jewish through conversion by Jewish settlers. This question is complicated by the likelihood of intermarriage. However this may have been, they at any rate shared much with their non-Jewish brethren in the Berber territory, and, like them, fought against the Arab conquerors.


In 1940, the Nazi-controlled Vichy government issued antisemitic decrees excluding Jews from public functions and imposing the wear of yellow Magen David star. Sultan Mohammed V refused to apply these racist laws and, as sign of defiance, insisted on inviting all the rabbis of Morocco to the 1941 throne celebrations[1].

In 1948, approximately 265,000 Jews lived in Morocco. Between 12,000 and 17,000 live there now, mostly in Casablanca, but also in Fes and other main cities.

In June 1948, soon after Israel was established and in the midst of the first Arab-Israeli war, riots against Jews broke out in Oujda and Djerada, killing 44 Jews. In 1948-9, 18,000 Jews left the country for Israel. After this, Jewish emigration continued (to Israel and elsewhere), but slowed to a few thousand a year. Through the early fifties, Zionist organizations encouraged emigration, particularly in the poorer south of the country, seeing Moroccan Jews as valuable contributors to the Jewish State.


The Aben Danan synagogue in Fes
Zaouit el Bir Dades Cemetery South MoroccoIn 1956, Morocco attained independence. Jews occupied several political positions, including three Members of the Parliament of Morocco and a Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. However, emigration to Israel jumped from 8,171 in 1954 to 24,994 in 1955, increasing further in 1956. Beginning in 1956, emigration to Israel was prohibited until 1963, when it resumed[33]. In 1961, the government informally relaxed the laws on emigration to Israel and when Mohammed V died, Jews joined Muslims in a national day of mourning. Over the three following years, more than 80,000 Moroccan Jews emigrated there. By 1967, only 60,000 Jews remained in Morocco.

The Six-Day War in 1967 led to increased Arab-Jewish tensions worldwide, including Morocco. By 1971, the Jewish population was down to 35,000; however, most of this wave of emigration went to Europe and North America rather than Israel.

Despite their current small numbers, Jews continue to play a notable role in Morocco; the King retains a Jewish senior adviser, André Azoulay, they are well represented in business and even a small number in politics and culture, Jewish schools and synagogues receive government subsidies. However, Jewish targets have been attacked in Casablanca Attacks in May 2003. King Hassan II's invitations for Jews to return have not been taken up by the people who emigrated.

As of 2004, Marrakech had an aging population of about 260 Jews, most over the age of 60, while Casablanca has between 3,000 to 4,000 Jews. Meanwhile the State of Israel is home to nearly 1,000,000 Jews of Moroccan descent, around 15% of the nation's total population.

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[Rahafania]

Merci pour cette vidéo, quelle nostalgie! , c'est aussi l'une des mes chansons préférées, je n'ai pas vu le Maroc voila bien tôt 3 années , j'espère que vous allez tous bien, Bonne et heureuse année, espérons qu'elle ramène la paix . Merci encore une fois

[chasseurdesJuifs]

Le Maroc est un pays musulman ,, qui soutien la Palestine jusqu a la fin vive gaza vive Palestine vive hamas forever

[badysat]

@chasseurdesJuifs Tfooooooouu

[tchekovinho00]

@chasseurdesJuifs 7mar

[Elchaidadon]

fuck palestine!!!! viva israel viva the moroccan jewish the best ever--as the italians people, jewish ad berberians founded morocco a long time ago before the arabs come to morocco land so shut the fuck up all the stupied arabs here with thestuped commnents moroccans rulles in israel!!!!!!!!!!

[idricool]

Je suis Musulman et les juifs sont des Humains comme nous.

Hamas est un groupe terroriste qui tuent des civils.

Il ne faut pas se plonger dans la haine, la paix est notre destin.

[PatoWiNNERS]

the top comment is racist !

[rabiabader]

Notre soutien et envert la verite, cad la volente du createur de ce monde.

[rabiabader]

je suis Marocain et nous avons beaucoup de respect envert les juifs d'origine marocaine, car se sont des gents digne de ce respect et consideration. Nos grand parents les ont connus et ont temoignes de cela!! En tant qu'un etre humain nous n'acceptons pas les ignorant, les xenophobes et les racistes quelle que soit leurs religions qui ne partagent pas nos valeures humaines et qui se croivent superieurs ha ha ha !!!.

[Amrruk]

@chasseurdesJuifs Le Maroc n'est pas un pays musulman !!! Un pays ne peut proffesser une religion, une terre ne peut pratiquer l'Islam !

Le Maroc est un pays multiconfessionnel, autant un pays du Judaisme que de l'Islam ou de la Chrétienté que de l'Athéisme !!!

Sur ce, je suis persuadé que vous n'êtes pas marocains ou ayez quelconques relations avec le Maroc...mais que vous êtes une saleté d'Algérien batard !!! Issu de l'esclavage coloniale franco-turc !!!

[Amrruk]

@Yitzhakhazak Shalom Yithzak ! Ce "ChasseurDesJuifs" n'est assurément pas Marocains mais un sale batards Alkhariyen du pays maudit que nous avons comme voisin !!! Cette nation et ce peuple batards que sont l'Alkharie et les Alkhariyens voue une haine et une jalousie viscérales envers le Maroc et les marocains qu'ils soient juifs ou musulmans ! Ce sont des haineux qui jaloux de notre Histoire, de notre culture et nos traditions millénaires et de l'harmonie entre les juifs et les musulman du Maroc