Moroccan-Jewish community council raises funds to assist Palestinian hospitals
The Council of Jewish Community in Morocco will organize next December 2 a fund-raising gala in Madrid to raise funds for Palestinian hospitals.
The event is also sponsored by the Spanish "Mundo en Armonia" association chaired by princess Irene of Greece, the Spain-based Peres center for peace and the Palestinian health council.
The gala will feature songs that highlight the common basis of the Jewish and Islamic-Moroccan cultures and merge the music of the two cultures in a recital that is an hymn for peace, tolerance and the acceptance of the other.
The concert, organized by chairman of the Council of the Jewish community in Morocco, Serge Berdugo, will include Sephardic Moroccan songs performed in Arabic, Hebrew and Spanish by Francoise Atlan and Zoubeida Idrissi.
The concert was first performed during Morocco's days in France in 2000 and is now played in many countries part of a world tour that started in May 2000 in Casablanca.
The event will take place at a time when the international community is celebrating Saturday the international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people.
