THIS Jan 15 file photo shows Morocco’s King Mohammed VI (centre) during a visit to Bayt Dakira, a museum in the Atlantic coastal city of Essaouira. AFP
RABAT: Jewish history and culture in Morocco will soon be part of the school curriculum a “first” in the region and in the North African country, where Islam is the state religion.
The decision “has the impact of a tsunami,” said Serge Berdugo, secretary general of the Council of Jewish Communities of Morocco. It “is a first in the Arab world,” he said from Casablanca.
For years, although the kingdom had no official relationship with Israel, thousands of Jews of Moroccan origin visited the land of their ancestors, to celebrate religious holidays or make pilgrimages, including from Israel.
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