Israel Seeks Billions in Compensation from Arab Nations for Expelled Jews

While the amount claimed from Morocco is not specified, the same goes for Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Iran. Tunisia must pay $35 billion, Libya $15 billion, according to information circulating in reports on the Israeli government, says the weekly Al Ayyam, noting that the State of Israel has concluded a convention with an international firm to assess the value of the property and assets of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Middle East and North Africa.

Israeli President Reuven "Ruby" Rivlin had already asked the Arab countries in December 2014 for "financial reparations for the benefit of the Jews who were forced to leave these countries." "Give us back the money of the Jews," he insisted during the ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries after the creation of the State of Israel. It would be time to "correct the historical injustices suffered by the Jews in the seven Arab countries and in Iran, by restoring to them hundreds of thousands of properties they had lost. It is their right," the Israeli Minister of Social Equality, Gila Gamliel, insisted in 2019, recalls the newspaper, which specifies that these Jews were nearly 856,000 people, including 200,000 in Morocco.

The Jews of Morocco had not been expelled. They would have simply joined Israel as part of a collective immigration, the weekly newspaper points out.