Alex Levac, Government Officials at the Bet El Synagogue, Yom Kippur, Casablanca, Morocco 1994

The High Holidays service at the central synagogue in Casablanca presents the Moroccan Government with an opportunity to pay tribute to the Jewish community, and to demonstrate its policy of protection towards the Jewish minority. Out of the 5,000 or so Jews in Morocco today, about 4,500 live in Casablanca, with most of the lower- and the middle-class members of the community living in the vicinity of the Bet El Synagogue in the city center.