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Topic: Morocco

June 11, 2013
4:52 pm

A suspect related to the 2009 Bar Noar shooting attack is escorted by police as he arrives in court in Tel Aviv, on Thursday (photo credit: Flash90)

Press agog over broken gag

Police spill the beans about murder case too soon; Israel said to sell military hardware to Muslim states

By Ilan Ben Zion

June 7, 2013
6:18 pm

WATCH: TA Pride Parade in 90 seconds

Times of Israel video: Several thousand tourists, some from as far afield as Casablanca, join 100,000 locals at colorful festival

By Ricky Ben-David

May 3, 2013
4:28 pm

Jewish burial site restored off African coast

Moroccan king a major benefactor in renovating Cape Verde plot

April 26, 2013
11:20 pm

Graves at a Jewish cemetery (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Moroccan king co-funds renovation of Jewish burial site

Cape Verde community plans to rededicate a gravesite in the West African island state next week

April 26, 2013
11:08 pm

Bnei Jeshurun synagogue in New York's Upper West Side (photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, by Americasroof, Wikimedia Commons)

US man gets jail term for synagogue terror plot

Moroccan-born Mohamed Mamdouh to spend five years in prison for planning to blow up New York shuls

April 3, 2013
4:15 am

The French Justice Ministry is reviewing name-change applications on a case-by-case basis. (Croquant via Wikipedia)

French Jews win right to choose their own names

After a historically charged legal fight, Jewish families can revert to their foreign ancestors’ last names

By Rebecca Benhamou

March 24, 2013
6:32 pm

Portuguese island to see first seder in decades

Madeira, off the coast of Africa, will host descendants of forced converts to Christianity

February 26, 2013
2:45 pm

A still from 'Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah' shows Aicha Elkoubi, left, and Hannah Schmouyane, Moroccan Jews who immigrated to Israel, reminisce about the old days. (photo credit: AP Photo/Les Films d'un Jour)

Morocco film searches out Jews who left for Israel

Once home to some 300,000 Jews — the largest community in the Arab world — Morocco is taking a fresh look at its long history with Judaism

By Paul Schemm

February 14, 2013
6:04 pm

Moroccan PM Abdelilah Benkirane at the opening of the Slat Al Fassiyine synagogue in Fez Wednesday (photo credit: Youtube image)

Morocco’s Islamist PM inaugurates refurbished Fez synagogue

Message from King Muhammad VI, praising the Jewish community and pledging to protect it, read out at ceremony

By Elhanan Miller

February 14, 2013
4:23 pm

German Ambassador to Israel Andreas Michaelis with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 17, 2011. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90

Germany to help Israelis stuck in unfriendly countries

Tourists having trouble in one of the 30 states with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations will no longer be on their own

By Raphael Ahren

February 14, 2013
12:30 am

Records at Haifa's Rambam Hospital reveal discrepancies in the accounts of her sister's birth, Sonia Lifschitz believes. (Photo credit: CC BY/david55king via Flickr.com)

Did immigrants’ newborn die, or was she abducted?

Israeli woman suspects Haifa hospital lied about the whereabouts of her sister, believes she is alive and in the US

By Hillel Kuttler

February 13, 2013
12:45 pm

On a large television screen in front of Pyongyang's railway station, a North Korean state television broadcaster announces the news that North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jon Chol Jin)

Don’t confuse us with the Brotherhood, says Moroccan PM

Saudi foreign minister bashes Iran, and Tunisian leader expects new unity government this week

By Elhanan Miller

February 8, 2013
10:18 am

Avi Levy in his HaMotzi kitchen (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Breaking bread with a master chef

TV contest winner Avi Levy’s Jerusalem restaurant, HaMotzi, is thriving — drawing plenty of Ashkenazim to the Sephardi cuisine he learned from his mother

By Jessica Steinberg

January 29, 2013
8:00 am

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, flanked by Syrian National Coalition vice-president Riad Seif attend a press conference during the International support meeting of the Syrian National Coalition in Paris, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 (photo credit:AP/Francois Mori)

France warns extremists could prevail in Syria

If Syrian people won’t ‘achieve their freedom… massacres and antagonisms’ will have the upper hand, FM Fabius tells opposition gathering

By Elaine Ganley and Zeina Karam

December 20, 2012
1:30 am

The UN Security Council chamber (photo credit: CC BY-SA Gruban, Flickr)

Security Council members step up pressure on Israel over settlements

US blocks vote on resolution against Israel and joint presidential statement condemning move

By AP and Times of Israel staff

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