Meyer Ohayon Tapiero, a Morocco native who was among the founders of the new Jewish community of Marbella in the Andalusia region of Spain, died Jan. 30 at 94.
Tapiero and his wife came on vacation to the resort town of Marbella in 1955 from their home in Casablanca, where they had a successful mens clothing business, and decided to set up their home and family in the Spanish region because he felt the political change coming in Morocco and decided to look at new prospects beyond its borders.
His wife had come to Morocco from Berlin, which she fled in 1942.
