http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Health-and-Science/Alleged-kidnapping-of-Yemenite-children-opens-Pandoras-box-in-Knesset-457923Activists allege that an unknown number of children born to immigrant Jews from Yemen in the 1950s were “stolen” or taken for adoption by childless Ashkenazi Jews and others, when their biological parents were told the babies had died. But they allegedly were never told about a burial or given any more information.
Now, with the public again raising of the issue after an investigation committee discussed it in the ‘90s and locked up the data until 2070, MKs and families demand to know the truth. Maklev said that “most people believe that something happened then. We want to find out.
We are pushing for the opening of written evidence presented to the investigation committee. A genetic database with DNA taken from family members will finally settle the matter. The genetic tests could also prove that nothing wrong happened.”
Likud MK Nurit Koren said the affair “is a deep wound in the heart of the nation. It has to be opened now. We were always told that nothing happened, but how could that be if the committee investigated over 1,000 Yemenite children? Everybody is coming and telling me it happened in their families too. The phone doesn’t stop ringing. People want to tell their story and look for their children.”
Likud MK Nava Boker added that she would be the first to give a blood sample to find her “lost sister and find out what happened to her. But we don’t know where the children are to take their DNA, whether they are in Israel or alive. The first thing to do is to open the reports and documents. A genetic database is not enough.”
Topic: Documents about the so-called “Yemenite Children Affair” may finally be unsealed (Read 747 times)