As I was explaining in previous posts of my trip to Morocco in this blog, the Jewish community was very relevant for the Kingdom of Morocco, specially after the Spanish Inquisition (1492) to the the foundation of the State of Israel (1948) period in which they accounted to be around 300.000 of the Moroccan inhabitants. The mechoragim (sephardic Jews expelled from the Spanish Peninsula during the Inquisition) had to coexist with the tochavim (the native Jews of Morocco). What it is sure, is that during so many years of inhabitating the country, they did not only turned Moroccan citizens, but left a remarkable social, economical and cultural legacy into this country.
Every single town of Morocco has a Bab Mellah (Jewish Quarter) that is normally composed by at least one Synagogue, one cemetery, and some markets. The city of Fes, could not be any different! It has to offer, by far, the biggest Jewish cemetery of the country: the ‘Cimetiere Israelite’ of Fes, towards which, a lot of Israeli tourists will head to, as they may probably have family graved in it.
The entrance costs another 1€, the graves are all painted in white, there’s a place to pray with the book of the Torah opened in it.