What the story does not tell is that part of this population did not go to Babylon but preferred to go southwest instead of east.
And so the first destination was Egypt.
Some of these Jews, perhaps tired of the road, decided to settle in this country.

Others preferred to continue on their way and thus headed for Libya. Here too a group decided to stay and form a community on the spot, the others continued on their way and ended up in Tunisia.
The same scenario was repeated when they arrived in Algeria.
It is to be believed that there were many of them who split up, staying there and letting the others move on.

The next group, while maintaining the course towards the west, decided instead to head southwest. And so they arrived in the south of Morocco. They found a rather peaceful Berber population. Again, half of this remaining group decided to stay there. The other half, who preferred to go further, faced the Atlantic Ocean. Having no choice, they stopped there.
Thus, the south of Morocco became the last stop for this population that dragged on for several months before finishing their journey.
These Jews realized that they had to live with a different world than their own. They had nothing in common, neither language nor culture. Speaking of culture, we must remember that we are in the 6th century BCE and that nothing of what we know today existed

The latter, new members of society, were able to cross tribal borders and performed important tasks as merchants, peddlers and itinerant craftsmen.
They lived in this way and in peace until the arrival of a second exodus, that due to the destruction of the second temple in 70 CE. The same scenario as the previous one occurred and all the communities in North Africa grew thanks to these new arrivals.

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Southern Morocco became rich, villages became cities and all was well in the best of worlds. (as Voltaire would say in Candide...ha ha)
Here we are in 1492 with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. They had no choice but to seek refuge around the Mediterranean Sea. We know that many went to Turkey while others had to cross the Strait of Gibraltar to land in Tangier. The cities of Tetouan, Mellila, Ceuta developed with a large population of Jews from Spain.
A little later, they moved down to Rabat and Casablanca. These Jews were the ones from the North who thought they had discovered a new Eldorado.
I can imagine the shock when a Jew from the North meets a Jew from the South who tells him that he has been there for 2000 years and has no idea of this Spain he is talking about.
I don't know if anyone has made this point, but I find it rather moving and it should be appreciated.
I will not talk about the advent of Islam and all the miseries that our people have known, the objective of this document being to know the origin of the Jews of Morocco. If these few thoughts have added a little light to our knowledge, I will be happy.

I am sure that many before me have touched on this subject looking for where the Jews who lived in Morocco came from.

I am sure that many of these researchers came to the same conclusion, namely, that they all came from Spain during the Inquisition of 1492 followed by the expulsion of those who refused to convert to Christianity.
They settled in the north of the country, first in Tangier, then a little further south in Rabat and Casablanca, and then eastward in Meknes and Fez.

My personal research went a little further.

While the Jews had their religion, their laws and their code of life, the Berbers had none of these. Little by little, these two populations living side by side had to get used to the idea of a rapprochement.
It remains a curious and interesting fact, namely that these Berbers never thought of driving out these invaders. They accepted them and for this, we owe them a proud candle.
I recently read an article that said that the Jews of Oufrane (Ifrane), in the Anti-Atlas Mountains, claim that their ancestors arrived more than two and a half thousand years ago, fleeing Jerusalem during the Babylonian conquest. Medieval Arab historians were the first to record the tradition that Berber tribes (Amazigh; plural Imazighen) converted to Judaism several centuries before the arrival of Islam in the seventh century CE.

So what did the hosts of this country live on? It seems that agriculture and cattle breeding were the norm, while on the coast, there was fishing.
The Jews had to get used to it. They learned the language of the country (which was not yet the Arabic of today) and helped their hosts as best they could, especially in the area of health, for yes, there were doctors among the Jews.