Taznakht Cemetery The Jewish cemetery of Taznakht, an isolated town in the sparsely populated rocky landscape south of Ouarzazate, should have decayed into oblivion like many of the remote cemeteries in southern Morocco. Indeed, after Taznakhts Jewish community left in the 1950s, the cemetery walls began to crumble and tombs began to disintegrate from exposure to the elements and vandalism. But then, in 2005, Charly Bouskila, a Casablanca businessman with roots in Taznakht, decided he had to act to save the burial site of his ancestors and preserve it for future generations. Three years later he inaugurated a gleaming new cemetery complex, with sturdy new walls, dozens of restored tombs, a synagogue, and even a guesthouse. As a result, remote Taznakht today hosts one of the best maintained Jewish cemeteries in all of North Africa.