Moroccan Jews fear returning to their homeland
by editors@theworld.org (Alexa Dvorson) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6N49N)
Morocco's high tourism season is just getting underway. But one substantial group is missing: Israelis of Moroccan descent who usually arrive by the tens of thousands to visit their ancestral homeland every year. They stopped coming to Morocco after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and ensuing war in Gaza. As reporter Alexa Dvorson reports, Moroccans in the city of Fez are discouraged because the country has a long history of peaceful Muslim-Jewish coexistence.