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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), spent his youth in Morocco which he left in the early sixties.
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FES (EJP-AFP)---A former Israeli ambassador to France and several other Jewish personalities of Moroccan origin have been decorated by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the 9th anniversary since he came to the throne.
Yehuda Lancry, who was Israel's ambassador in Paris between 1992 and 1995 and later became a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, was born in Boujad.
Among the other personalities honored by the king are Paris’s chief rabbi David Messas, born in Meknes, who is the son of the former chief rabbi of Morrocco Chalom Messas, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, who spent his youth in Morocco which he left in the early sixties.
Some 300,000 Jews lived in the country in the first half of the 20th century. Most of them emigrated to Israel, Canada, France, Spain and Latin America.
Today they are around 6,000 and play an active role in Moroccan society .