2,000 Jews in Morocco, this is the figure put forward by the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel. These new data on the presence of Jews in the world were published during the Jewish New Year 5780, on Sunday, October 4.
About twenty supporters of Raja Casablanca were denied entry visas to the West Bank by the Israeli authorities.
The Kingdom continues to seduce the Israelis. Proof of this, the Israeli tourists visiting Morocco reached nearly 80,000 in 2018, which testifies to a significant increase compared to previous years.
The National Brigade of the Judicial Police arrested a foreign national with an Israeli passport. He is suspected of being linked to the criminal network involved in the forgery of Moroccan identity documents and passports, dismantled in March 2019.
Moroccans and Jews are two peoples intimately linked by history. They share several realities that enrich their paths, such as the hashish produced by Morocco and sold by Jews. In order to show the cultural proximity between the two peoples, Time of Israel, an Israeli media, has produced a report on the issue.
To fulfill a wish dear to her grandfather, Khen Elmaleh, a second-generation Israeli of Moroccan origin, traveled to Morocco in July 2019, in search of her ancestors. The "DJ, journalist and cultural mediator" talks about this first trip to the Kingdom in one of the most widely read media in Israel, of which she is also the cover.
In the Azilal region, a tourist from Israel died a natural death due to health problems. This happened this Friday, June 28, 2019, in a tourist establishment in Afourar.
Of the 12.8 million tourists visiting Morocco each year, more than 50,000 are Israeli. The Moroccan Jewish diaspora living in Israel represents a large part of the annual visitors.
King Hassan II handed the Mossad the recording of an Arab heads of state summit held in Casablanca in 1965 in preparation for a possible attack on Israel. This recording allowed the Israeli defense forces to prepare for the Six-Day War.
Israeli dancer Simona Guzman was denied permission by the Moroccan authorities to organize a festival in a palace in Marrakech. The local authorities considered the event inopportune.
King Mohammed VI invited the son-in-law of the American president, Jared Kushner, to a ftour at the royal palace in Rabat. The latter arrived on Tuesday in Morocco, as part of a tour that will take him to Jordan and Israel.
Jared Kushner will embark this week on a journey that will take him to Rabat, Amman and Jerusalem. The son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, and in charge of the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, has not revealed the purpose of these various trips.