Moroccan Jews in Israel

Moroccan Jews in Israel
Regions with significant populations
	Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and many other places
Languages
	Hebrew (Main language for all generations); ; Older generation: Moroccan Arabic; Judeo-Moroccan Arabic; French
Religion
	Judaism

Moroccan Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Moroccan Jewish communities, who now reside within the state of Israel. They number around 1,000,000^[1] and they constitute the second-largest Jewish community, after the Russian Jews in Israel.

History

After Nakba in 1948, and due to domestic strife in the 1950s, the next several decades saw waves of Moroccan Jewish emigration to Israel. Moroccan Jews emigrated for a variety of reasons. Some have emigrated to Israel for religious reasons, some feared persecution, and others left for better economic prospects than they faced in post-colonial Morocco. With every Arab-Israeli war, tensions between Arabs and Jews would rise, sparking more Moroccan Jewish emigration. By the time of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the majority of Morocco's Jewish population had emigrated to Israel.^[2]

Notable people

References

^ ^a ^b "Statistical Abstract of Israel 2009 - No. 60 Subject 2 - Table NO.24". Israeli government. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
^ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4350488,00.html

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[ispop-1] "Statistical Abstract of Israel 2009 - No. 60 Subject 2 - Table NO.24". Israeli government. Retrieved 12 December 2011.

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Israelis by religion	Judaism Rabbinic Conservative Reform Karaite Haymanot Islam Sunni Shia Ahmadiyya Christianity Eastern Orthodox Catholic Protestant Druzism¹ Samaritanism Bahai Hinduism Buddhism
Jews	Ashkenazim Romanian Russian Mizrahim Bukharan Georgian Iraqi Iranian Kurdish Moroccan Mountain Jews Yemenite Sephardim Bulgarian Moroccan Turkish Karaites Romaniotes Italkim Indian Cochin Bene Israel Bnei Menashe Bene Ephraim Ethiopian Beta Israel Falash Mura
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¹ Druze have a status aparte from Muslim Arabs in Israel, since 1957. ² Arameans have a status aparte from Christian Arabs in Israel, since 2014.

History

Notable people

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References