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rising anti-Semitism and about the cries for help from his community back home. Lugassy, who was in
Manchester (or in London according to other scholars) at the time, returned to Morocco for that summer, and decided to use his wealth to affect the local authorities into changing their mind about the Jews' freedom of residence. Lugassy then led a six men delegation to the Moroccan town hall and negotiate the situation. This led to the Jewish Ghetto's enlargement.
152:, expressing his anger at the local Jewish leadership which was not contributing to their peers' wellbeing and only using their taxes wrongly; He had published all of the Mogador updates in the Jewish Newspaper "Times of Morocco". Lugassy had founded a Zionist group called "Ahavat Zion" ("the love of Zion" in Hebrew) and registered over 50 local Jews in Mogador; or "Shaarai Zion" ("The Gates of Zion" in Hebrew) where he led the organization for 2 congresses.
114:, Morocco โ where there are records of a rabbinical family of the same surname that lived there since the 17th Century. In his teenage years while Morocco was part of the French influence, Lugassy actually was attracted to English despite studying in French. After graduating, Moses and his brother moved to London and started working in the local textile industry. It was there where Moses met his wife, and where he became a naturalized British citizen.
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