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Maghrebi Jews have an enormous cultural influence in Israel. Falafel is widely known as the National Food of Israel, [23] and due to falafel's origins in the Middle East and North Africa, Maghrebi Jews, along with other Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, played an enormous role in making falafel an Israeli staple.
North African Sephardim are a distinct sub-group of Sephardi Jews, who descend from exiled Iberian Jewish families of the late 15th century and North African Maghrebi Jewish communities. Since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries , most North African Sephardim have relocated to either ...
Later studies showed that haplogroups M1 and U6 are, in fact, carried on rare occasions by North African Jews. For example, a sample collected by Luisa Pereira et al. for their 2010 paper [15] is labeled a "person of Jewish ancestry" from Tunisia who belongs to haplogroup U6a7 [16] and the same study found haplogroup U6a1 in two Jews from Morocco.
The Maghreb region produced spices and leather, from shoes to handbags. As many of the Maghrebi Jews were craftsmen and merchants, they had contact with their European customers. [102] Today, among Arab countries, the largest Jewish community now exists in Morocco with about 2,000 Jews and in Tunisia with about 1,000. [103] [104]
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By the beginning of the 19th century Jewish worshippers were few, and according to Yehoshua Ben Arieh, lacked any special distinction. [28] [29] In an account of his travels to the Holy Land in 1845, T. Tobler noted the existence of a mosque in the Mughrabi quarter. [30] According to Yeohoshua Ben-Arieh, the Maghrebi people regarded the Jews as ...
According to Michel Tribalat, a researcher at INED, there were more than 4.6 million people of Maghrebi origin (with at least one Maghrebi grandparent from Algeria, Morocco or Tunisia) living in France in 2011 (3 million in 1999). [24] [25] Below is a table of population of Maghrebi origin in France in 2011, numbers are in thousands:
North African Jews may refer to: Maghrebi Jews , who lived in North Africa in the Middle Ages North African Sephardi Jews , who migrated from Spain to North Africa around 1500