This photograph by Eddie Hirschbein shows men, women and children who have just arrived at the Gilat settlement in the northern Negev, October 1954.
Many suitcases and boxes are placed next to the immigrants, as they look at their surroundings. One of the women is holding a baby and nearby are two toddlers, one of them wearing a cap on his head. The man next to her is possibly her husband. The other woman is sitting on one of the crates, on her feet are high heels, and she is dressed in modern clothing. Behind them is an elderly man wearing a large cap as well as a vehicle - perhaps the vehicle that brought them to the moshav.
Moshav Gilat was established in 1949 by immigrants from Tunisia, and later immigrants from Morocco, Libya and Yemen also joined it. The family in the picture is one of the families who immigrated from Morocco in the first wave.
In the years 1948-1956, over eighty-five thousand Jews immigrated to Israel from Morocco, both for Zionist reasons and due to the fear of riots following Israel's victory in the War of Independence. However, in the years 1951-1952, the State of Israel limited immigration from North Africa, and only young, healthy people and those who had families in Israel were allowed to immigrate. In 1954, terrorism increased in Morocco, and in 1955 there was even a fear that the government in Morocco would ban the immigration of Jews. As a result, it was decided to immediately help about thirty-five thousand Jews from Morocco to make Aliya.
This photograph by Eddie Hirschbein shows men, women and children who have just arrived at the Gilat settlement in the northern Negev, October 1954.
Many suitcases and boxes are placed next to the immigrants, as they look at their surroundings. One of the women is holding a baby and nearby are two toddlers, one of them wearing a cap on his head. The man next to her is possibly her husband. The other woman is sitting on one of the crates, on her feet are high heels, and she is dressed in modern clothing. Behind them is an elderly man wearing a large cap as well as a vehicle - perhaps the vehicle that brought them to the moshav.
Moshav Gilat was established in 1949 by immigrants from Tunisia, and later immigrants from Morocco, Libya and Yemen also joined it. The family in the picture is one of the families who immigrated from Morocco in the first wave.
In the years 1948-1956, over eighty-five thousand Jews immigrated to Israel from Morocco, both for Zionist reasons and due to the fear of riots following Israel's victory in the War of Independence. However, in the years 1951-1952, the State of Israel limited immigration from North Africa, and only young, healthy people and those who had families in Israel were allowed to immigrate. In 1954, terrorism increased in Morocco, and in 1955 there was even a fear that the government in Morocco would ban the immigration of Jews. As a result, it was decided to immediately help about thirty-five thousand Jews from Morocco to make Aliya.
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