There have been a Jews community in Morocco for a very long time, some historical sources said that their arrival to the country occurred during the prophet Solomon’s era, but others claim that it happened as a result of Titus’s attack over Jerusalem about 70 AD.

However, certain chroniclers claim that the first Jews wave in the Maghreb appeared around 320 BC, when  Ptolemy who banished the Jews who sought refuge in north Africa.

Nevertheless, the most important emigration was during the Christian reconquest in Spain, when thousand of Sephardic Jews were expelled along with Muslims from Andalusia to Morocco and some other North African countries.

Tangier hosted a large number of Ashkenazi Jews (יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז) coming from the east of Europe during the world war II, this community, whose members found a welcoming population and a potential environment to settle and live in harmony.