"The rise from Morocco"

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THE RISE FROM MOROCCO TOOK PLACE THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS. MOROCCAN JEWS WERE A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE RENEWAL OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE 19TH CENTURY IN MANY CITIES, INCLUDING: JAFFA, HAIFA, TIBERIAS, JERUSALEM AND OTHER CITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE WORLD OF EUROPE, THE SPOTLIGHTS WERE DIRECTED TO NORTH AFRICAN JEWRY, ESPECIALLY TO THE JEWS OF MOROCCO, WHICH WAS THE LARGEST OF NORTH AFRICAN JEWRY COMMUNITIES. IN THESE YEARS, THE SITUATION OF MOROCCAN JEWS WAS WORSENED BECAUSE OF THE GROWING TERROR IN THE COUNTRY AND THE HOSTILE ATTITUDE TOWARD JEWS FROM THE LOCAL POPULATION. THE SITUATION HAS WORSENED SINCE 1947, WITH THE UN DECLARATION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. NATIONAL FANATICS MURDERED AND WOUNDED JEWS IN VARIOUS CITIES IN MOROCCO, AS REVENGE FOR THE HARM TO THEIR BROTHERS IN ISRAEL. THE RIOTS INCREASED THE RATE OF IMMIGRATION, AND BETWEEN 1948 AND 1951, ABOUT 28,000 JEWS WERE RAISED. IN 1956, WITH THE RETURN OF MUHAMMAD V, AND LATER WITH THE DECLARATION OF MOROCCO AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE, THE JEWS WERE GRANTED FULL RIGHTS IN MY STATEMENT, BUT THERE WAS A FEAR OF THEIR FUTURE. AS A RESULT OF THE ARAB LEAGUE OF THE SAME YEAR, THEY WERE FORBIDDEN TO LEAVE, IF THEY INTEND TO IMMIGRATE TO THE STATE OF ISRAEL, AND THE MAJORITY OF THE IMMIGRATION WAS ILLEGAL, THROUGH THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND IN MOROCCO THROUGH THE COUNTRIES OF FRANCE AND SPAIN. BY 1967, MOROCCO LEFT 250,000 JEWS, SOME OF THEM TO EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, AND MOST OF THEM IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL.

THE RISE FROM MOROCCO TO ISRAEL, ALONG WITH SUCCESS, ENCOUNTERED VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES. CULTURAL GAPS AND DISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT HAVE RESULTED IN PROTESTING AND FOLLOWING, OVER TIME, THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN ISRAEL’S POLITICAL MAP.

BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL
A RISE TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL FROM MOROCCO TOOK PLACE THROUGHOUT THE AGES, AND THE RELATIVE SHARE OF THE PEOPLES OF MOROCCO IN JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN ISRAEL HAS BEEN LARGE OVER THE YEARS. THUS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE 13TH-CENTURY RABBI YEHUDA AL-AHRIZY WROTE DURING HIS VISIT TO JERUSALEM THAT THE CITY HAS A “IMPORTANT AND GOOD COMMUNITY” OF “WESTERN” (THE “WEST” IMMIGRANTS, CALLED MOROCCO IN ARABIC). THIS COMMUNITY MAY HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED DUE TO THE WAVES OF REFUGEES FROM THE AL-MUHAMMADDON PERSECUTION. IN MODERN TIMES THE RISE OF MOROCCAN JEWS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PERIODS; A SLOW STREAM OF IMMIGRANTS BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE AND THE PERIOD OF MASS IMMIGRATION IN THE 1950S AND 1960S. AS EARLY AS THE 19TH CENTURY, THE RISE FROM MOROCCO BEGAN TO OVERCOME, AND AROUSED OPPOSITION FROM THE RISING GOVERNMENT. IN 1846, MULYA ABDUL AL-HERMAN, THE RULER OF MOROCCO, WROTE TO THE GOVERNOR OF TANGIER:

AMONG THE IMMIGRANTS TO THE LAND PRIOR TO THE 20TH CENTURY WERE RABBIS AND HEADS OF COMMUNITY WHO WANTED TO FULFILL THE COMMANDMENTS OF IMMIGRATION TO ISRAEL. AMONG THEM, R. CAN BE COUNTED AS A STONE OF THE GREAT WESTERNERS IN THE MIDST OF RABBI SULEIMAN, AND RABBI OF THE AZOULAY AND RABBI OF THE AZOULAY, RABBI AVRAHAM AZOULAY, R. ISRAEL JACOB HAGAYS, R.A. AND HIS DISCIPLES, R. DAVID BEN SIMON, FOUNDER OF THE WESTERN WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, R. RAFAEL AL-A.

INVOLVEMENT IN SETTLEMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
IN 1829, THE SPANISH RABBI YEHUDA MARGUEZ INFLUENCED THE 12 SURVIVORS OF A JEWISH SHIP FROM MOROCCO THAT DROWNED NEAR ACRE TO ESTABLISH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF JAFFA, WHO WOULD EVENTUALLY DEVELOP INTO TEL AVIV. OF THE 65 JEWISH FAMILIES WHO LIVED IN THE CITY IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY, MOST OF THEM WERE FROM MOROCCO. TWO RICH FAMILIES WHO IMMIGRATED TO ISRAEL FROM MOROCCO, THE MOLE FAMILY AND THE THREE FAMILY SETTLED IN JAFFA AND TOOK A SIGNIFICANT PART IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE CITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST NEIGHBORHOODS OF TEL AVIV. DURING THE IMMIGRATION FROM EASTERN EUROPE IN 1882, MOROCCAN JEWS PLAYED A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE ABSORPTION OF IMMIGRANTS. AMONG OTHER THINGS, ABRAHAM MUEL AS THE LEADER OF THE JAFFA COMMUNITY TOOK ON PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ABSORPTION OF THE NEW IMMIGRANTS FROM AMONG HIM FROM RUSSIA AND ROMANIA. A.L.A. WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF A RIGHTEOUS OASIS ALONG WITH AVRAHAM III, OF THE LAND BUYERS THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST TO ZION AND PROBABLY ALSO INVOLVED IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE LANDS OF "IF THE COLONIES", FATAH