Jewish community in Casablanca

In the 20th century, Casablanca became the center of Jewish life in Morocco and home to the largest Jewish community in the Maghreb, with more than 80 synagogues and many Jewish social, cultural, and charitable organizations. In the 21st century, it is the largest Jewish community in the Arab world.

The Jewish community in Casablanca traditionally lived in the city's mellah, though class stratification in the Jewish community intensified during French colonial rule (formally 1912–1956, though occupied since 1907), and the mellah increasingly became the home of Casablanca's Jewish lower classes as the wealthy moved into apartments and villas beyond its walls.

Although the city's Jewish population decreased through the 1960s and 1970s, the percentage of Moroccan Jews living in Casablanca in relation to the rest of Morocco steadily increased as the majority of the country's Jewish population emigrated, especially through programs such as Cadima and Operation Yachin.