Vectorizing images on illustrator

Do i need to vectorize  all the images that I put on a illustrator artwor specially If i just want to crop
down this image. Can't I just leave the image as a jpg.

You can use the image as a raster image the jpeg is converted to a simple raster image or i you wish a normal image. It can not be cropped but it can be masked with a clipping mask.
And sometimes you do want to do this in Illustrator ir the clipping mask is on going to be a regular shape for instance and you might want al5er it later.
And then you do this later for instance

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