In his book "My Children Went Where?" The Dr. Natan Shipris Prize presents a historical study that analyzes thousands of documents and testimonies, which concludes that the three-step systematic move was deliberate: 1. The removal of children from families, sometimes by physical force, usually shortly after arrival at the immigrant camp or birth, and their concentration in infant homes health;

2. transfer hasty baby daughter immigrant camps to hospitals in distant cities, usually transports group at night, without medical justification and without informing their families. In many cases, informed parents after a short time their children died, but they were prevented from seeing her body, funeral or see Grave; 3. A hasty declaration of the children "disconnected" and their transfer to a children's home whose identity has been withheld from the parents' knowledge, and from which they were given up for adoption in Israel and abroad. 

Recently, the journal "Medical Law and Bioethics" published an article by Prof. Yechiel Bar-Ilan, "Missing Yemeni Children: Medicalization of Immigration and Demedicalization of History," which beautifies reality, describing the absorption of immigrants made solely by well-wishers. A huge proportion of the children died for health reasons. 

But even the Kedmi committee - which faced heartbreaking complaints from the families of 1,033 children who disappeared in a short period of time under similar circumstances, but chose to accept all death records as correct despite their many contradictions and despite the fact that some are puzzling reconstructions of burning archives - ruled 69 youth". Of these, 13 disappeared on their way from Yemen and 56 in Israel.

The population of Israel in 1950 numbered 1.37 million and today numbers 9.1 million. 56 children then correspond to 372 today. If 372 children had now disappeared without leaving a body or grave, would not the country be noisy? Would not this have been thoroughly investigated, even if it had turned out that most of them belong to a community without political power? In fact, among the children of immigrants from Yemen, at least one in eight toddlers has disappeared. This is a minimal calculation, based on only the 1,033 complaints discussed by the Kedmi Committee, which it says accounts for two-thirds of Yemeni immigrants, at a time when there were 5,824 children in Israel at the appropriate ages 4-0. Israeli society has to deal with this figure.

Let us return to Prof. Bar Ilan's article. He first writes: "With the establishment of the state, the Jewish community in Eretz Israel boasted one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world (3%)"; And further: "The infant mortality rate in immigrant camps and transit camps is almost 15%, but among Yemeni immigrants in the Rosh HaAyin camp - a transit station for about two-thirds of Yemeni immigrants - infant mortality between October 1949 and September 1951 rose to 60%. For every human society ever documented, it is the true and muted tragedy of the establishment of the state. " 

But it is precisely the records of the (so-called) 60% mortality rate, which is "enormous in relation to every human society ever documented," that should create a healthy suspicion towards the authorities and their records, and great openness to the cries of hundreds of parents before the opaque state commission of inquiry. The children died shortly after being taken from the parents, but many were handed over to what the commission called an "occasional delivery for adoption."

Delivery for adoption is also supported by testimony before the committee of workers involved in the absorption of immigrants, including childminders. The fact that the parents were not given the opportunity to predict her body and burial reinforces the suspicion that this is a phenomenon of handing over for adoption against the parents' wishes. 

And for those who are not convinced: the minimum Israeli society must admit is that if there was indeed a 60% mortality rate, which is "huge relative to any human society ever documented," it is a blatantly unsuccessful treatment of children by the authorities, which required a thorough investigation. Today at least bowing your head towards the surviving relatives and apologizing.

Prof. Boaz Sanjeru is the founder of the website "Review of the Criminal Justice System"