For the first time in 60 years, members of the Moroccan Jewish community celebrated, on Wednesday, at the historic Jewish cemetery of Meknes, the Hilloula of the Tsadikim.
In a letter addressed on behalf of the Council of the Israelite Community in Morocco, the Secretary General, Serge Berdugo, presented his wishes for King Mohammed VI’s speedy recovery.
The Jewish community in Morocco is being hit hard by Covid-19. Already eleven deaths recorded. It is the death of a relative of the leader of the Labor Party Amir Peretz, which has brought the number to 11.
Following the death of an Israeli in a bus accident on Friday, November 29 in Casablanca , Serge Berdugo, president of the Jewish Community Council, wanted to refute certain rumors.
Serge Berdugo, Secretary General of the Council of Israelite Communities of Morocco (CCIM), said on Monday that the initiative of His Majesty King Mohammed VI to create a museum of Jewish culture is of "absolutely extraordinary" symbolic significance.