page_title: List of newspapers in Morocco
section_title: Jewish press
hierarchical_section_title: List of newspapers in Morocco / History / Jewish press
caption_attribution_description: עברית: עיתון יהודי-מרוקאי שיצא לאור בטנג'יר במרוקאית יהודית וצרפתית La Liberté /אלחוררייא
context_page_description: Newspapers in Morocco are primarily published in Arabic and French, and to a lesser extent in Berber, English, and Spanish. Africa Liberal, a Spanish daily, was the first paper published in the country which was launched in 1820. Al Maghrip was the first Arabic newspaper of the country, and was established in 1886.
  In 1999, the number of French language newspapers distributed in the country was 130,000 while it was 62,000 in 1981. As of 2013, 71% of the papers were published in Arabic and 27% in French.
context_section_description: In 1883, Abraham Lévy-Cohen founded the first francophone newspaper in Morocco, Le Réveil du Maroc, to spread French language and culture among the Moroccan Jews. A man named Salomon Benaïoun started Kol Israel (1891), Mébasser Tov (1894-1895), and Moghrabi (1904), though these periodicals were short-lived. Benaïoun also founded el Horria / La Liberté (1915-1922), which covered Jewish interests in Morocco in two different editions: one in Judeo-Arabic and one in French. Adelante (1929-1932) was an independent hispanophone bimonthly periodical.
  In Casablanca, the Hadida brothers edited Or Ha’Maarav, or La Lumiere du Maroc (1922-1924), a Zionist newspaper written in Judeo-Arabic with Hebrew script, which ran from 1922 until the French authorities shut it down in 1924. It was followed by L'Avenir Illustré (1926-1940) a nationalist, pro-Zionist francophone newspaper, edited by Jonathan Thurz as well as l'Union Marocaine (1932-1940), a francophone newspaper in line with emancipatory views of the AIU, edited by Élie Nattaf. L'Avenir Illustré and L'Union Marocaine were both shut down by the Vichy regime.
caption: Salomon Benaïoun's el Horria / La Liberté in its Judeo-Arabic version, written with the Hebrew alphabet.
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