Ruth Maisner

Ruth Maisner was born Rita Abecassis in Casablanca, Morocco on Wednesday, 3rd October, 1956. It was then, as it is now, a tumultuous time in the region. Earlier, in March of the same year, the French Moroccan Agreement was signed by Premier M’Barek Bekkai in Paris, ending the Treaty of Fez and declaring the independence of Morocco from colonial France. On 29th October, 1956, with Ruth less than one month old, Israeli forces attacked across Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. A week later, British and French air forces arrived at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis.