Commenting on Israel’s plan to demand compensation for assets left behind by Jews in Arab countries in 1948, the president of the Canadian Sephardi Federation recalled that Moroccan Jews did not flee the Kingdom. To Avraham Elarar, Jews in Morocco were citizens and not refugees.
In a report made public February, the US Homeland Security revealed that 1818 Moroccan nationals were naturalized in the first three quarters of 2018 in the US. The number makes of Moroccans the fifth most naturalized Arab nationals in the country.
On March the 3rd, 1973, a group of young idealists from the National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP), manipulated by other parties, wanted to launch an armed movement against King Hassan II’s regime. The operation failed dramatically.