The Caisse d’Aide aux Immigrants Marocains[1] or Cadima (Hebrew: קדימה, 'forward'[2]) was the clandestine[2] Zionist apparatus that arranged and oversaw the mass migration of Moroccan Jews to Israel from 1949 to 1956, during the final years of French colonial rule in Morocco.
[2] Cadima established a main office in the European section of Casablanca and opened cells in large cities throughout Morocco, operating under the guise of providing social services and a library.
[6]: 164 From mid-1951[7] to 1953,[3] Cadima restricted the migration of Moroccan Jews through a criterion known as seleqṣeya (Hebrew: סלקציה[8]) that included a strict medical examination and privileged healthy young people and families with a breadwinner.
[3] While emigration ran smoothly under French colonial rule,[4] Cadima sought to accelerate its activities by loosening its selection criteria in the period preceding Moroccan independence.
[3] The two thousand people who were in Cadima's transit camp, unable to return home after having sold all their possessions and assets, were allowed to leave quietly after the World Jewish Congress negotiated with the Moroccan government.