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How did Moroccan je/ws end up in Israel? Operation Yachin was a human trafficking mission by Mossad in coordination with the Moroccan state and HIAS to bring Moroccan Jews to Israel between November 1961 and spring 1964. The Mossad utilized much of the infrastructure from the aliyah operations of the 1950s, where they used fear tactics and terrorism, to bring Jews to Israel with the permission of then king Hassan Il, who was also complicit in helping Israel during the 6 day war. Who paid for operation Yachin? US based HIAS (Hebrew immigration aid society), which financed approximately $50 million of costs. HIAS Is funded through tax payers and private financiers. About 90,000 to 97,000 Moroccan Jews left for Israel by plane and ship from Casablanca and Tangier via France and Italy. $500,000 was paid as a downpayment, plus $100 per emigrant for the first 50,000 Moroccan Jews, and then, $250 per emigrant thereafter. How were Jews treated in Morocco before they moved to Israel? Jews lived very well in Morocco, while rumors of recession and poor treatment of Sephardic Jews in Israel disheartened many would be emigrants to Israel. Once they got to Israel, Moroccan Jews were exploited for hard labour to build infrastructure projects such as the Dead Sea Works (mining project) in desert heat during the summer at around 45 degrees Celsius, and they built a pipeline project from the Jordan river. Israel isolated these exploited workers from the big cities (Haifa and Tel Aviv), and in the outskirts.