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Jewish schools and synagogues receive government subsidies. Several Jewish museums throughout the country cater to the growing interest in preserving Moroccan Jewish heritage and history. [130] However, Jews were targeted in the Casablanca bombings of May 2003. King Hassan II's pleas to former Moroccan Jews to return have largely been ignored.
Etching of Jewish home in Mogador, Darondeau (1807–1841). Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community with possible origins dating back to before 70 CE. Concrete evidence of Jewish presence in Morocco becomes apparent in late antiquity, with Hebrew epitaphs and menorah-decorated lamps discovered in the Roman city of Volubilis, and the remains of a synagogue dating to the third century CE.
Although the city of Marrakesh was founded by the Almoravids in 1060, Jews settled 40 km away and there is no recorded Jewish presence in the city until 1232. After the Reconquista and expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492, Sephardic Jews (known as the Megorashim) started to arrive in great numbers to Morocco, settling mostly in cities and mixing with the local Jewish population ...
The central street of the Mellah of Fez, with distinctive domestic architecture of former Jewish houses. A mellah (Arabic: ملاح, romanized: Mallāḥ, lit. 'salt' or 'saline area'; [1] and Hebrew: מלאח) is the place of residence historically assigned to Jewish communities in Morocco.
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The main street of the Mellah, the Derb al-Souq (Street of the Market). The Mellah of Fez (Arabic: ملاح) is the historic Jewish quarter of Fez, Morocco.It is located in Fes el-Jdid, the part of Fez which contains the Royal Palace (Dar al-Makhzen), and is believed to date from the mid-15th century.
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The 1465 Moroccan revolution was a popular uprising in the city of Fez, which was the capital of Morocco, against Sultan Abd al-Haqq II, the last ruler of the Marinid dynasty, and his Jewish vizier, Harun ibn Batash. Morocco was in severe crisis in the mid-15th century, including a progressive Portuguese invasion of the country.