Historians agree that the presence of Jews in Morocco dates back to the first destruction of Solomon’s temple by the Babylonians, in the sixth century BC – meaning that since the Middle Ages, “Morocco has been home to the largest and strongest Jewish community in the Arab-Muslim world,” says French historian Georges Bensoussan.
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