Ifrane Atlas-Saghir or Ifrane, Anti-Atlas (Arabic: إفران الأطلس الصغير, meaning cave), is a village and commune in southern Morocco populated by some 12,000 inhabitants.
[1] The town, its arid valley, oasis and surrounding mountains attract some tourism, from hikers and Jewish pilgrims.
The area is now populated by the Chleuh (Amazighen Berbers) group, who today generally maintain their traditional way of life.
Ifrane Atlas-Saghir was an ancient home to a 2,000-year-old Jewish population, the oldest in Morocco, until 1958 when they left as a group to settle in Israel.
"[3] The descendants of Maklouf have maintained an oral history of their family's fate following the massacre, which their great-great-great-great grandmother managed to escape.