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
Organized Zionism, the 19th century ethnocultural nationalist movement to establish a Jewish state through the colonization of Palestine, came to Morocco from Europe at the beginning of the 20th centu
Rabbi Judah Leon Jalfón [he]—founder of the Shivat-Zion (שיבת ציון 'Return to Zion') Association in Tetuan, seated—with Ariel Bension—emissary of the Jewish National Fund, standing on the left—and other Zionist activists in Tetuan, 1921.
Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump and then-senior advisor to him as well, speaking in a joint U.S.–Israeli delegation to Morocco, December 2020.