WhereDaily News: Morocco's King Mohammed V Honored for Protecting Jews From Nazis During World War II

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - December 23, 2015) - King Mohammed VI's late grandfather, Mohammed V, posthumously received the inaugural Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.-Rabbi Abraham Heschel Award in a ceremony attended by hundreds on Sunday at B'nai Jeshurun congregation in New York City. Initiated this year by KIVUNIM: The Institute for World Jewish Studies, the award honors King Mohammed V for protecting Morocco's 250,000 Jews from discrimination and annihilation in the early 1940s, when Morocco was a French protectorate occupied by the pro-Nazi Vichy forces.

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