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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

Moroccan Jews

Mercedes Abitbol, 51, proudly wears her 'chai' necklace in the streets of Andorra, where she was born and has lived her whole life. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
July 27, 2024, 12:04 pm
An unofficial synagogue and virtually no antisemitism: Meet Andorra’s tiny Jewish community
The microstate between Spain and France has warm relations with Israel, and while its 73 Jews pray in a community center they can’t call a temple, they feel right at home
By Larry Luxner
A scene from '7 Blessings,' this year's big winner at the 2023 Ophir Awards, including Best Picture (Courtesy PR)
March 1, 2024, 11:21 am
‘7 Blessings’ lead actor and writer tells behind-the-scenes story of award-winning film
Reymonde Amsellem speaks to a sold-out Times of Israel audience about making family drama with members of her own Moroccan tribe
By ToI Staff
A man inspects the damage caused by the earthquake in the old Medina of Marrakech, Morocco, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. An aftershock rattled Moroccans on Sunday as they mourned victims of the nation’s strongest earthquake in more than a century and sought to rescue survivors while soldiers and aid workers raced to reach ruined mountain villages. (AP Photo/Rida Tabit)
September 12, 2023, 5:41 am
Moroccan Jews reportedly all safe in devastating quake that has killed over 2,800
6.8-magnitude quake, centered in Atlas Mountains near Marrakesh, struck at time of heightened Jewish tourism ahead of High Holidays
By PHILISSA CRAMER and Eliyahu Freedman
Rubble in aftermath of the earthquake that struck the port city of Agadir, Morocco, March 1, 1960 (AP Photo)
September 10, 2023, 8:38 am
Israeli family in Morocco to memorialize 1960 quake victims is caught in deadly tremor
Jacqueline Bouskila Twizer and her 10 siblings planned to visit Agadir where 10 relatives died; says ‘symbolism’ of also getting caught up in massive earthquake gives her ‘chills’
By ToI Staff
A woman walks through the rubble past earthquake-damaged houses in the old city in Marrakesh, Morocco on September 9, 2023. (Fadel Senna/AFP)
September 9, 2023, 6:21 pm
Residents reel after earthquake leaves Marrakesh’s historic Jewish quarter in ruin
Quake forces families to seek refuge in public square after centuries-old homes and streets turned to rubble
By AFP
Archaeologists dig in the ruins of a synagogue in the Jewish neighborhood, or "mellah," in the village of Tagadirt in Morocco's oasis region of Tata on February 28, 2023. (Fadel Senna/AFP)
March 20, 2023, 3:55 am
Archaeologists search for signs of Jewish past in Morocco’s southern oases
Team works to save artifacts from pair of old synagogues that have suffered from looting, warn they’re ‘at risk of disappearing’
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri
Young French Jews of Moroccan descent in Jerusalem watch France battle Morocco in the World Cup Semifinal, December 15, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
December 15, 2022, 3:59 am
World Cup semifinal tests conflicting loyalties for Jerusalem’s French-Moroccan Jews
While most at a pizza joint in the capital rooted for France, many with deep family roots in Morocco still held a special place in their hearts for the Atlas Lions
By Lazar Berman
Palestinians watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup quarterfinal game between Morocco and Portugal, in Nablus, in the West Bank, on December 10, 2022 (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 11, 2022, 11:14 am
‘Indescribable’: Ecstatic Israelis, Palestinians celebrate Morocco World Cup success
Soccer fans across Israel, West Bank and Gaza embrace Atlas Lions as their own; police accused of using excessive force to break up East Jerusalem celebrations; 1 arrest in south
By ToI Staff
Senior Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates Elie Abadie attaches a Mezuzah to the Beit El Synagogue at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Marrakech, Morocco. (Screenshot/ YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 6, 2022, 7:31 pm
Morocco opens first university campus synagogue in Arab world
Despite having no Jewish students enrolled, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Marrakesh inaugurates house of worship alongside mosque as symbol of tolerance
By Ash Obel
Illustrative: Jewish merchants come from around the world to buy from Moroccan etrog growers like Mohammed Douch in Assads, September 8, 2015. (Ben Sales/JTA)
October 13, 2022, 5:39 am
Peace with Israel, Jewish agricultural law have Morocco’s etrog industry blossoming
Though Israeli import laws favor domestically grown citrons, every 7 years growers from the high Atlas Mountains corner the market during the biblical farming sabbatical of shmita
By David I. Klein
Moroccan Jews and Israeli Jewish tourists participate in Simchat Torah festivities at a synagogue in Marrakesh on October 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA)
July 14, 2022, 3:22 pm
Morocco: New bodies to recognize Judaism as ‘a component of rich Moroccan culture’
Acting on ‘royal instruction’ from King Mohammed VI, interior minister proposes reorganization of the country’s Jewish community groups
By AFP
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, center, blesses Lev Tahor member Uriel Goldman, right, in Morocco, in a still from an undated video made available to The Times of Israel. (screen capture: Lev Tahor Survivors)
July 14, 2022, 1:45 am
Leadership behind bars, Lev Tahor cult now seeking to move to Morocco, opponents say
Extremist Jewish group seen getting blessing from controversial celebrity rabbi Pinto for latest cross-border flight; activist says most in group being held against their will
By Luke Tress
A member of the Jewish community lights a candle at a Jewish cemetery in Morocco's northern city of Meknes on May 18, 2022. (Fadel Senna/AFP)
May 21, 2022, 4:46 am
Moroccan Jews return to their roots with pilgrimage to Meknes
Visit this week was first of its kind since the 1960s, after the Muslim kingdom restored the city’s Jewish cemetery
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri
A view from Tamanart, Morocco. (Marokko-erfahren/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
January 2, 2022, 5:53 pm
Researchers discover ruins of 16th-century Jewish community in Morocco
Ruins of Tamanart synagogue found during preliminary survey of Jewish sites in area, thanks to locals who remembered Jewish neighbors leaving 70 years ago
By Jordyn Haime
Temple Beth-El in Casablanca, Morocco, on March 27, 2019. (Mishael Sims via AP)
November 23, 2021, 11:32 pm
Remains of 7 Jewish COVID-19 victims brought from Morocco to Israel for reburial
Victims all died in early months of pandemic as virus devastated Moroccan Jewish community; airlift made possible by normalization, start of flights
By Shira Hanau
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