The mellah became overpopulated within few years, with most estimates that more than 40,000 people living in the mellah at the peak of its population in the late 1940s, before the emigration of the community after the independence of Israel, the end of the French protectorate, and the Six-Day and Yom Kippur wars to Israel mainly, and also to France and Montreal. [4] [5] The jewish population of the mellah of Marrakesh today is about 200 inhabitants.[3]