Original sentence: In cities, a mellah was surrounded by a wall with a fortified gateway
Edited sentence: In many of these cities, there were primarily Jewish neighborhoods, but they didn’t come with the safety benefits and protections as a mellah.It first was seen as family Benyamina living privilege and a protection against the Arabs' attacks in the region, but with the growing of the population, it then became a poor and miserable place.Not all cities in Morocco had mellahs.These spaces allowed Jewish individuals to develop the identity of the “Moroccan rabbinate, the sociology of the mellah synagogue, lay community leadership, and the historic role of the Sephardic heritage in Morocco.With the colonisation and the arrival of the Europeans at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Mellah opened and gave new economical and social possibilities to the Moroccan Jews.” </blockquote>In cities, a mellah was surrounded by a wall with a fortified gateway