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 BOUJAD, Morocco (AP) - Past a faded green door, under washing flapping from a line, stands a dilapidated house that represents the beginning of a Jewish odyssey. The house on the Darb al-Kadareen alley in this town's Jewish quarter was once the home of a toddler named Armand Perez who would take the Hebrew name Amir Peretz and become the Israeli Labor Party's candidate for prime minister in Tuesday's election.
His date of birth — March 9, 1952 — and the years of his parents' births are meticulously recorded in Boujad's Town Hall in both the Western and Islamic calendars.
Today, no one in this farming town 170 miles from Rabat, the capital, remembers the boy who left at age 4. But some recall his father, David Perez, telling how he cried — as did some of the town's Muslims — when he and other Jews sold their houses half a century ago and immigrated to Israel.
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