Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, very few Moroccan Jews migrated to Palestine. Although the spread of Zionism in Morocco began at the turn of the 20th century, only starting in
An empty synagogue in Fes.
Moroccan Jewish immigrants arriving in Israel, 1954. From 1949 to 1956, Cadima migrated over 60,000 Moroccan Jews to Israel.
Elder Israeli citizen of Moroccan origin voting in the 1965 Israeli legislative election, Ashdod
Moroccan Jews celebrating the Mimouna festival in Jerusalem, Israel, 1988
Anti-Jewish riots occurred on June 7–8, 1948, in the towns of Oujda and Jerada, in the French protectorate of Morocco in response to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War ensuing the declaration of the establishm
Migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel
…migrants caught attempting to cross the border into Algeria would be sent back. Clandestine migration through Algeria during the Palestine war led to the 1948 anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada in June. There were concerns that Morocco's eventual independence from France might result in the persecution of the country's Jewish population…
A photo of the Jewish cemetery in Oujda, taken in 2010.
Yemenites go to Aden
مينوراه رومية عثر عليها في أطلال وليلي في المغرب