Minister Arbel instructed the establishment of the committee. The decision came after criticism of a draft report on the subject written by an internal team of the Ministry of Health.
Retired judge Shulamit Dotan will chair the committee, which will include Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef and Prof. Yaakov Korach. "The affair of the children of Yemen, the East and the Balkans is a very sensitive and painful issue that has accompanied Israeli society for many years"