TOMB OF RABBI EPHRAIM ENKAOUA

Fleeing the persecutions to which the Jews of Spain were subjected, Ephraim's parents settled in 1391 in Tlemcen where the Jewish community was already important. After a medical training, the young man imposed himself by his piety and obtained the regrouping in the center of Tlemcen of the Jews scattered in the region. When he died in 1442, the grateful community had a tomb built for him in the Jewish cemetery. The tomb, marked by stones, is a place of pilgrimage.