Morocco’s high tourism season is well underway, but one substantial group is missing: Israelis of Moroccan descent who usually arrive by the tens of thousands to visit their ancestral homeland every year. They stopped coming to Morocco after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and ensuing war in Gaza. As correspondent Alexa Dvorson reports, Moroccans in the city of Fez are discouraged because the country has a long history of peaceful Muslim-Jewish coexistence.
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