Embarek Bekkai, Morocco’s Minister of the-Interior, has agreed to attend the congress of the Council of Moroccan Jewish Communities to be held on March 19 at Rabat, it was reported here today. Dr. Leon Benzaquen, a former member of the Cabinet, will be honorary president of the congress.
Meanwhile it was reported today that Mayer Toledano, a local Jewish attorney, has been dismissed from his post as vice-president of the Casablanca Municipal Council. A letter informing Mr. Toledano of his dismissal from the Council, gave no reason for the move.
Mr. Toledano, who was honorary chairman of the Moroccan section of the World Jewish Congress, had served as his country’s commercial counsellor at the Moroccan Embassy in Washington and was formerly director of the Moroccan Ministry of National Economy.
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