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When the phone rang on the second day of Passover, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Levi Banon figured it must be an emergency. Electronic devices were prohibited during the holiday. Any call must be urgent.
Morocco's Jewish community was hit hard in the early days of the pandemic; the victims included a Chabad rabbi who lived in Casablanca.
Victims all died in early months of pandemic as virus devastated Moroccan Jewish community; airlift made possible by normalization, start of flights